Thats similar to me as a frontend dev seeing all the backend complexity and thinking it would be easier just to read and write a json file instead of a db + apis.
It works but on longer projects where requirements can explode in complexity it becomes a problem. It really helps to have tools that can stay maintainable.
That comparison works against your point quite well because there are an absolutely incredible amount of backend services built with scalability and sharded postgres dbs with redis caching or what-have-you that would have been perfectly served by a perl script and an sqlite file.
