That "predictable tax" line is good, but I'd check your bill of materials. The half-FTE for pipeline upkeep is predictable, but have you factored in the security engineers' time chasing lagging data? That's a variable cost that's harder to budget for.
We saw prettier charts, but response time didn't improve because the dashboard was stale. The real question is, does the centralized view actually show you what's deployed right now, or what Snyk processed last night? If it's the latter, you're paying for a historical archive.
>However, that simplicity became a limitation.
That's the key point, I think. When you have 800 services, that simplicity on the developer side just pushes complexity onto the security team. You've got a massive scale, so did the Snyk unified dashboard actually help your security ops prioritize their work? Or was it just a nicer-looking pile of data they still had to manually sift through?