"Obviously, if the only criterion was that it should just work, everyone would go with the simpler system." It's obvious to you and me, but to many people it's

"Obviously, if the only criterion was that it should just work, everyone would go with the simpler system." It's obvious to you and me, but to many people it's not obvious at all. You only have to look at the very large deadpool of companies that made these mistakes and died because of it. People optimize prematurely, scale prematurely, make ego based decisions, care more about interesting tech than making the business grow, etc etc. That's really the whole point of the parent article - people make bad decisions because of the allure of some "cool" but complex and unnecessary tool. Also, thanks for the note on the background - I'll fix that :)