It is not nonsense. It is not nonsense because people really run their applications (e.g. PostgreSQL) in virtualized environment these days (i.e. AWS, DO, Lin

It is not nonsense. It is not nonsense because people really run their applications (e.g. PostgreSQL) in virtualized environment these days (i.e. AWS, DO, Linode, Google Cloud etc.) People still need to estimate the performance they will have under these situations - and these benchmarks are relevant to them.