I often favour low maintenance and over head solutions. Most recently I made a stupidly large static website with over 50k items (i.e. pages).

I think a lot of people would have used a database at this point, but the site didn't need to be updated once built so serving a load of static files via S3 makes ongoing maintenance very low.

Also feel a slight sense of superiority when I see colleagues write a load of pandas scripts to generate some basic summary stats Vs my usual throw away approach based around awk.