I suppose the parent comment was more about scaling up for transactional workloads - the story there is a lot better (although there's still issues left we have

I suppose the parent comment was more about scaling up for transactional workloads - the story there is a lot better (although there's still issues left we haven't tackled, but mostly on very big machines) than for analytics workloads. But yes, while we progressed in 9.6, there's still a lot of important things lacking to scale a larger fraction of analytics queries.