And as a developer or a team, you're bound by how long development takes, not by the required resources.
You won't be asked by a business stakeholder "oh, and how much RAM does it take?" or "why is it $2,000 a month instead of $1,000?". These questions tend to come much later when profit needs to be ironed out.
And later, when performance becomes important, it is often much harder to improve than early on. Especially with legacy db schemas with a lot of existing customer data.
And as a developer or a team, you're bound by how long development takes, not by the required resources.
You won't be asked by a business stakeholder "oh, and how much RAM does it take?" or "why is it $2,000 a month instead of $1,000?". These questions tend to come much later when profit needs to be ironed out.