People expect software to be feature rich, complex and solve all the world’s problems. And if you don’t do that, the vibe coded competition will beat your cleanly architected product commercially.

It's not even better though. It doesn't have more features because it's a distributed system. It isn't faster because it's a distributed system. Maybe it has a bit higher uptime but nobody was paying too much attention to that anyway, except when it's down. And it's much better for your PR if, when it's down, it isn't down for everyone at once.

Indeed, it's an expectation problem, and it's even worse in higher management.

Users don't expect infinite features.

Managers and marketers are the ones asking for all those useless features. And god forbid they run out features to ask for, because then they start asking for architecture v2.0 projects.