The whole point of my statement was that it's NOT a technical argument.
Anyone with significant experience and maturity knows this already. Being technically correct doesn't matter if you've created more work for yourself than you can handle.
"Scalability" is much more often a people management problem rather than a technical one. Please come back and tell me how you feel about this when you have 10^4+ servers in your care.
The nice thing about well-orchestrated cloud is that you can run your infrastructure the same way whether you have 10^1 or 10^5.
