The examples are pretty bad because the features he talks about are already included in most frameworks. Adding a non scaling database is trivial and role based

The examples are pretty bad because the features he talks about are already included in most frameworks. Adding a non scaling database is trivial and role based security is also trivial. A seasoned developer might need three or even less days to implement these things. Meanwhile the time spent going from one inadequate solution to a less inadequate solution might take more than that.