I consult for a large company that has this same motto and they are trying to use the Netflix stack to build their death star as well. It's hell.

@MrMeeseeks Came here to say that. I long for the days where I was the only one that knew the product. :)

Yeah. Nike, Time Warner, NASA, Under Armor, Converse, Etc use it. It's usually used for experiences and authoring fragments though. The problem you run into is the delivery mechanism doesn't have to be AEM. So it's not like AEM is a web server serving up the content all the time. Sometimes it's just publishing some authored content to a feed and something else is putting on the page.

Forms are used a lot since Lifecycle is EOL, but you don't always see that externally. Sometimes it's internal usage.

I did, but when they changed the license model to price me out of developing with it independently, I gave up.