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by MadVikingGod 906 days ago
No. No more than anyone made Motorolla over-engineer the first cellphone. We have been over-engineering long before the cloud and will continue long after.

Did it make it easy to over-engineer? Yes.

Is it more common for things to be over-engineered? Probably.

Does this question gloss over the actual cost of getting something running that is useable by more than a handful of people? Yes.

Would I ever want to go back and write code like we did 20+ years ago? Nope.