“I see people making the same mistake with tools like Kubernetes. Many, if not most stacks, simply don’t need it… and those that do pay the price for all the overhead and brittleness.”
CGI needs no libraries, no framework upgrades and no configuration beyond one webserver flag. Schade’s first site ran as a Perl CGI script and never hit a server limit. Then he tried doing projects the “right” way and abandoned them. The big players’ tooling solves the big players’ problems, and everyone else pays the complexity bill.