130 Tools, 20% Utilization, $71K/Year Lost Per Engineer - The Platform Sprawl Tax

Enterprise teams manage 130+ tools but only use 10-20% of their capabilities. Engineers juggle 16 monitoring tools on average—40 when SLAs get strict. Context switching alone costs $71K per engineer per year. We expose the real economics of platform engineering: why traditional ROI metrics lie, how to calculate actual costs vs perceived savings, and the Monday-morning actions that stop the bleeding.

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