These sweeping generalizations in either direction are wrong and counterproductive. Some people need the complex infrastructure, some people don't. What you s

These sweeping generalizations in either direction are wrong and counterproductive. Some people need the complex infrastructure, some people don't. What you should focus on is finding out what your use cases are, and then building the simplest thing that meets them. For some folks, high availability and zonal resiliency is an absolute must. For other folks, like Peter, it might not be. These context-less platitudes are pretty useless outside of the context in which they're made.