When you have a business where salaries are a much larger percentage than hosting on your overall costs, you're going to add to the second to squeeze more out o

When you have a business where salaries are a much larger percentage than hosting on your overall costs, you're going to add to the second to squeeze more out of the first. When you have done the optimisation above, and your bosses keep asking for more features coming out per quarter, and you need to hire more, you're going to opt for the new things everyone is learning, so that you can hire enough without making your life all about hiring. These are trade-offs like any other, and you probably just haven't been exposed to similar constraints or all of this would make at least some sense. There may be better ways, of course.