Yeah I mean I look at this example and it’s obviously pretty “extreme” - nobody is running that query every second (at least I hope not) - but I think the princ

Yeah I mean I look at this example and it’s obviously pretty “extreme” - nobody is running that query every second (at least I hope not) - but I think the principle is important. You run that query once a day and it’s still costing you 1Kx what it would if it were optimized.