The under-discussed part here is that Stripe keeps turning product work into infrastructure. Checkout optimization used to be a team-level advantage: better flows, fewer fields, smarter payment method ordering, better experiments, better fraud tradeoffs. Now Stripe is packaging more of that into the default layer. That is great for most companies, but it also means a lot of āgrowth productā work gets commoditized.
The under-discussed part here is that Stripe keeps turning product work into infrastructure. Checkout optimization used to be a team-level advantage: better flows, fewer fields, smarter payment method ordering, better experiments, better fraud tradeoffs. Now Stripe is packaging more of that into the default layer. That is great for most companies, but it also means a lot of āgrowth productā work gets commoditized.