Sure, everything's a tradeoff - but sometimes I see things like that as frontloading the pain of when bndlrrr.io or whatever goes down in the middle of the nigh

Sure, everything's a tradeoff - but sometimes I see things like that as frontloading the pain of when bndlrrr.io or whatever goes down in the middle of the night and your client is angry at you. But yeah, like everything in software, it's a spectrum and 'best practice' and the 'right way' are highly dependent on the context.