KubeCon North America was a pivotal event where platform engineering took center stage, showcasing its significant impact on industry mindshare. The focus on visibility as a primary goal of platform engineering is misguided, and teams should prioritize building their foundation first. A key challenge in shipping an IDP with high impact and ROI lies in repository structure, which often suffers from inefficient relationships between workloads and configuration files. This leads to auditability, ownership, security, and maintenance issues. To address this, a more professional repository structure is needed, where resource config files are moved to dedicated repos, abstracting by building golden paths for developers. This approach enables clear governance, RBAC, and standardization, reducing config files by up to 95% and improving time-to-market by up to 30%.