I don't see any essential difference between the two. You can build 1 million forms within a team of 5, or you can run a distributed system of 10 machines that

I don't see any essential difference between the two. You can build 1 million forms within a team of 5, or you can run a distributed system of 10 machines that runs as fast as 1. The only difference is between bad engineering and good engineering. Good engineering gets rid of repetitive work, bad engineering breeds them. If your team needs a lot of junior engineers to do trivial stuff, that's probably bad architectural design.