Not everything needs to “scale.” I think needing scale is relatively rare, actually.

> Not everything needs to “scale.” I think needing scale is relatively rare, actually.

The ability to scale a system is not limited to throughput metrics. If it where, I would agree with your point.

Scaling in complexity and/or ability to feasibly introduce significant change is also a desirable system attribute and the one which I predominantly had in mind. The likelihood of also being to scale from a throughput perspective is a nice bonus.