If you're small startup burning $5k/year in lazy tax is smarter than distracting your engineers the math flips when you hit scale. For some that safety margin

If you're small startup burning $5k/year in lazy tax is smarter than distracting your engineers the math flips when you hit scale. For some that safety margin isn't small. At a certain volume, waste exceeds the cost of a full-time engineer so optimizing becomes profit.