> Or they always operate at levels of abstraction where everything is slow, so they have simply gotten used to it That's a lot of it, I believe. One startup I

> Or they always operate at levels of abstraction where everything is slow, so they have simply gotten used to it That's a lot of it, I believe. One startup I dealt with was honestly proud of how they were scaling up to hundreds of requests per second with only a few dozen AWS VMs to handle it. I'm old enough to know how ludicrous those numbers are, having built systems handling more load on a single desktop machine with 90s hardware. But I've come to realize some of the younger developers today have actually never built any server implementation outside of AWS! So the perspective isn't there.