Because I believe the overhead to not be worth it. I’d rather a database be cloud native and have things like sharding and scaling built in and the coordination of that built in. I grok the CockroachDB way of doing things much more than how Vitess is and shocking fact most companies aren’t Google in size and don’t really need a Vitess or CockroachDB but get swept up in the Cloud,Cloud,Cloud! craze. The seemingly brittle nature of vtablets, vtgates, etc versus something built in is valuable to me.