As an Ops, this sounds like a very overworked ops team. I can write a production worthy postgres module in less than a day, maybe a few hours. Or... just a subpar team, as much as I hate to say that.
As an Ops, who literally replaced Patroni with a Terraform CTS module, in about a week... can say that it would be nearly impossible to do in a non Pizza size team due to communication and confirmation biases, alongside the respective anti-patterns.
Mostly overworked but also not a team of veterans who knew what they were doing already.
Platform Ops:Product App Devs ratio was like 1:30, and they had very little implemented yet so just completely overscheduled and understaffed.
I've been ops for about 15 years and understaffing us is such a huge problem. I just joined a company with 2 other Ops for 80 developers over 8-10 teams, my previous had 7 for 70 and was one of the few places I felt like I could take a breath and relax, easily take days off, etc. I felt more like a SWE than ops with regard to work-life balance/on-call rotations/ability to do creative & research work, etc.
I'm glad those 2 ops at my current spot finally have help but they were alone for years while the company was generating a ton of revenue which bothers me but seemingly was their own decision; nobody told them they were overworked until us more SR ops people arrived and went out of our way to pull work away from them.
Having all sorts of different teams (style, culture, language) relying on you to not gate-keep is.. stressful at times. I try to context switch as little as possible but sometimes it just can't be avoided.
