While I agree with you, I think the parent's advice of "autoscale your consumers" is also a good advice, if interpreted in certain sense: that is, when you see

While I agree with you, I think the parent's advice of "autoscale your consumers" is also a good advice, if interpreted in certain sense: that is, when you see that your queues start approaching the uncomfortable sizes, start dropping your clients. When they try to reconnect, they will probably get routed to a different, less busy node.