[XorNot]

I have worked at too many companies where the effort spent not using a simple database was an exponential drag on everything.

Hell I just spent a week doing something which should've taken 5 minutes because rather then a settings database, someone has just been maintaining a giant ball of copy+pasted terraform code instead.

[fmbb]

A giant ball of copypasted Terraform is not the simplest thing that could possibly work.

Adding the runtime complexity and maintenance work for a new database server is not a small decision.