[bcrosby95]

I think the opposite. Prematurely building things you don't need costs $$$$, and in a tight funding environment you don't want to burn cash you don't need to.

Also compared to the 00s, the 2010s were a decade of gold plating and planning for scales you don't need.

[yen223]

That already happened. A large part of why Fast collapsed so fast was their overly-high infrastructure and engineering spend