Do the simplest thing that could possibly work

I have worked at places where, for a website that would require one server (or at most two or three, for redundancy), Kubernetes and React and all the trappings of a humongous website were implemented. It took me a bit to figure out why we were doing all this for a website which would basically just publish some static html: it was for resume building. The lead dev, and the project manager, were not working on that project (a website which would never get all that big), they were working on a resume for FAANG.

Once you see this, you see it everywhere. 90% of the places using "modern" web technology, are built as if they were anticipating FAANG scale, not because they are, but because the people building them hoped to be working at FAANG soon.

I have 100% the same experience. I would say it's often also an ego thing, not only resume building. I.e. the ego can't handle building a simple solution, the dev builds FAANG scale solutions therefore he/she is a great developer.