I have a similar feeling. My team builds out a lot of one-off projects for customers, and a lot of them don't need to be especially performant. That has always

I have a similar feeling. My team builds out a lot of one-off projects for customers, and a lot of them don't need to be especially performant. That has always been the case for reporting/analytical projects. You know what does make a difference though? Amount of development effort spent on the solution. The most performant solution can very easily cost the company much more in terms of development time spent. So in that sense, it's sub-optimal