> but the inevitable moment (if you survive) It's probably not inevitable. Simple is fast, and fast can scale you really far. Sure, if you end up being google

> but the inevitable moment (if you survive) It's probably not inevitable. Simple is fast, and fast can scale you really far. Sure, if you end up being google-scale then yeah, the world changes. But there's very few companies that large, yours is probably not growing to that size. Over a decade ago I joined a mid-sized startup and took ownership of a service using MySQL. The first urgent warnings I was given was that they had to migrate to cassandra ASAP because soon MySQL couldn't possibly handle it. I took a look at the traffic and the growth curve and projected customer adoption. And then put that project on hold, no need yet. Company went on to an IPO, grew a lot, pretty successful in its industry. And years later when I left, it was still going strong on MySQL with no hint of approaching any limitations.