The main benefit of something like River is simplicity. With River your application might consist of two components, a database, and a code server. Such an arc

The main benefit of something like River is simplicity. With River your application might consist of two components, a database, and a code server. Such an architecture is really easy to test, develop, debug and deploy. Adding temporal.io means introducing a third component. More components usually means more complexity. More complexity means more difficult to test, develop, debug and deploy. As with everything, it's all about tradeoffs.