The shape across orgs we audit: nine-year-old Service Cloud implementation with 240 active flows, 80 validation rules nobody documented, Apex code from the classic era, an integration layer that's a mix of REST callouts and platform events, and a release process that ships through change sets at midnight on Sundays. Salesforce's platform is exceptional; most implementations don't survive contact with a product team that ships features.
We implement and remediate Salesforce orgs with the engineering discipline the platform actually deserves: declarative-first where it's appropriate, code where it's warranted, governance documented up front, technical debt tracked as a first-class concern, and a CI / CD pipeline that ships through code rather than change sets. Reimplementations and major customizations land with documented architecture, not vendor demos.