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Counter point - even if you spend more time on scale and system setup you will still be prone to failure without having this scale tested and stepped up progressively.

And I think ironically you are more likely to get higher scale if you spend less time on scaling, since you spend more time building other things that users care about.

And frequently if focusing on scale, you will run into bugs that you wouldn't if you would just use a simple one box monolith. Your incident resolving might take longer with a scalable microservices arch because debugging and everything becomes much more complex.

You have limited resources where you are assigning skill points to your character. But the thing is, if you do a more complex arch, it will keep taking away those skill points not only in the beginning but over time.