Of course, if Slack thought this were true, they wouldn't have bothered with this rewrite. Obviously no PM is going to tell customers, "just spend $200 for ano

Of course, if Slack thought this were true, they wouldn't have bothered with this rewrite. Obviously no PM is going to tell customers, "just spend $200 for another 8GB of RAM to run our chat software." > Usage at this scale just doesn't matter to the vast majority of users. The usage model is that it's on all the time. So if it's draining batteries, causing paging or otherwise slowing things down, people are going to quit Slack, thus defeating the immediacy of communication, thus defeating the point of running Slack. And Slack becomes powerful when it can be required by a workplace, which is their business model. This means the "vast majority" isn't enough at any given company.