I don't think that's a contrarian view. Engineering time vs. BOM cost has long been an understood trade-off in component selection. It's even becoming a commo

I don't think that's a contrarian view. Engineering time vs. BOM cost has long been an understood trade-off in component selection. It's even becoming a common position in software-only projects to scoff at the idea of performance-oriented design decisions; without doing so much as some quick napkin math to evaluate impact to hardware cost. They just buy more AWS time.