[marcus_holmes]

Why one middleware? Let's make ten different middlewares, each with their own technical differences and benefits in particular niche scenarios, right?

Let's have some intense ranty debates about which middleware is better for which scenario, and a couple of religious wars about which fork coupled with which middleware is "best".

Meanwhile, S3 just does the thing. It gets called "$3" by intense people who understand exactly why it sucks so bad. But for anyone who needs to store documents on a thing, and have someone to blame if the documents stop being on the thing, it works fine and it's much less fiddly to set up.

Yeah, I get the Linux analogy all too well...