This totally depends on what you're doing. Sometimes you should be using the bazooka, sometimes not. Building a large government system, or something internal

This totally depends on what you're doing. Sometimes you should be using the bazooka, sometimes not. Building a large government system, or something internal for a large company that will have heavy and pretty-well-quantified usage, and need to be maintainable? Hell yeah bazookas all the way down. If you know your system is going to end up large and complex, use the more complex but well-defined tools. If you're not doing this, or you're even just doing a beta or prototype of the above then don't. Really what this is about is technical debt. Technical debt - like monetary debt - is a useful tool that can get you where you need to be (nobody saves up from scratch to buy their first house - they get a mortgage). The person advocating the bazooka just doesn't want you to have any debt, in the form of whatever hacked-together fly swat you might build to do the job temporarily, however some debt is a good thing.