WontonDon

Working on the things you love should energize you. Consider if you are truly passionate about the things you are currently working on right now.

If you are having fun and are genuinely building something cool, you'll be very productive. The second order effect is that you'll be more financially successful(stable family) and happy(mental health).

As long as they keep innovating to stay number 1, they will do just fine, even against AWS fork or new competitors.

Just look at the the github repo activity between elastic and opensearch. Overwhelmingly, elastic is doing 100x better. AWS doesn't care as much as elastic about these products.