[mm_aa]

It seems that the author completely disregards the modern tendency to treat boxes as commodities. While pondering a "what's going to start on this particular machine" question is interesting in the "old world", it is hardly a question anyone asks when your fleet starts to be measured in tens of thousands of cloud instances.

[digi_owl]

No, his issue is that because others choose to do so he has to do so because the fad of the year is tramping all over the alternatives.