It's always funny to me how they are still insisting on customer experience and good coffee house. In the bay area most starbucks have become the burger king of coffee shops: housing of drunk homeless people
I don't love micro frontends, but having been in an org that grew very fast to dozens/hundreds of engineers working on FE stuff, Conway's law was definitely at work there.
You are definitely right, this really is a case of prioritising your org chart, but you often don't have the choice.
After both working 4+ years at Uber and other small YC companies and ad agencies before that, my wife and I started a small web studio. She's a designer (communications design and UX) and I'm a web full stack engineer. It's the 2 of us, with sometimes freelancers to help.
We mostly work with SV-based and YC companies.
We can help with communication design, branding, ads, UI/UX, full stack web (ruby, rails, elixir, phoenix, nodejs, react, redux).
First, wow this is both incredible and crazy! Both the China-side hacks and your side's anti-hack. Mind. Blown.
Second, would have it been cheaper to manufacture somewhere more trustworthy (another country?) instead of spending all this time/money on your anti-hack systems?
And I'd strongly recommend paying for DAS and looking at every.single.video in there. Gary is brilliant and each video explains stuff in a very simple, enjoyable way.
Reminds me a bit of Ryan Bate's ruby/rails videos.