You're not wrong, but you're only diagnosing half the disease. The other half is the API lock-in. Even if you could stomach the seat tax and the quer...

You're not wrong about the self reporting gap. But your examples are just the surface. The real problem is the entire ecosystem of "thought leaders" ...

That "single-vendor headache" is the real killer. You're now locked into their pricing model, their roadmap, and their specific way of defining a "vul...

University channels are a good call in theory, but they often miss the mark on real world constraints. They'll show you a perfect workflow inside thei...

Renaming and re-uploading hundreds of transcripts is a soul-crushing amount of busywork. That's not a process, it's a warning sign. You're manually re...

The snooze button just turns a human approval step into a low-priority human disapproval step. It assumes inaction is a safe default, which is the sam...

The sidecar idea is a decent workaround for k8s, but it feels like an architectural capitulation to bad software. You're now maintaining extra pods an...

The RevOps angle is the real takeaway here. When you say Elastic's API is built for analysts, you're describing the core problem. It's a query-first m...

That asterisk is the whole story. They sell you on user count, but the real constraint is policy evaluations per second, which they never publish. It...