I think it is unfortunate that single node/non scalable databases are still being used, which then leads people to have to do gymnastics to mitigate their limit

I think it is unfortunate that single node/non scalable databases are still being used, which then leads people to have to do gymnastics to mitigate their limitations (no write scaling, etc). If they used something like Spanner, they would probably not have needed to do any of this and could instead focus on their core business.