A new business already has a laundry list of "I need to ${thing} to survive". Being able to move one such problem a couple of years in the future is already an

A new business already has a laundry list of "I need to ${thing} to survive". Being able to move one such problem a couple of years in the future is already an attractive value before considering most businesses won't last that long anyways (for reasons unrelated to how optimized the database was). I mean if you already have the know how, confidence, and experience to do it right in the same amount of time then duh. If not, is spending precious extra time that early on really going to help you survive long enough to reach where how optimized you infrastructure spend is seems like an important problem for your cash flow? Sometimes I think this then gets conflated with more established businesses where continuing to start every project so heavily this way does tend to create more problems than it solves.