Not so unpopular. I worked at a startup where they wasted huge amounts of money on a massively complex set up using kubernetes (and this was the early days of

Not so unpopular. I worked at a startup where they wasted huge amounts of money on a massively complex set up using kubernetes (and this was the early days of kubernetes). Despite this, or maybe because of it, our AWS bill was killing us. The irony was that the cloud was supposed to be the simplest bit. All the computation and cryptography occurred on the mobile clients, the cloud was really just to provide storage. The same team then rewrote the mobile clients to have a "beautiful" API that took 100s of times more resource than the original code. I guess they just loved complexity for the sake of it.