Except for any aspect of the post to actually justify the engineering effort it would either have to improve efficiency or save money. All while Netflix has increased cost, stopped account sharing, and introduced ads.
Net negative improvement for users whilst there was presumably some net savings or gains for Netflix.
They've from offering a competitive offering to offering a compelling investment, shedding any guise of caring about their users along the way.
Not sure why that would matter, complaining about content in response to an article about infrastructure doesn't make any more or less sense if the infrastructure is available as a service.
But I do consider some of what Netflix does to be a platform. Most of it is platform in the sense that some of their open source offerings are commonly adopted such as Spinnaker. But if you look at the adoption of microservices at Netflix a part of that includes Conductor, an open-source microservice orchestration engine.
The Netflix developers that created Conductor left Netflix and formed a new company named Orkes to offer Conductor as a platform. So while its not operated by Netflix, the microservice efforts they've made have been turned into a service offering.
