Comment by nirb89

Oh, I don't disagree. The original vision and what the product ended up doing are light years apart. Likely, had we known what it would evolve into, we would have decided on a different solution (perhaps not JSONata at all, for example).

Having said that, My opinion still is that the previous solution had valid business merit. Though inefficient, the fact that it was infinitely scalable and the only limit was pure dollar cost is pretty valuable. It enables business stakeholders / managers to objectively quantify the value of the feature (for X dollars we get Y business, scaling linearly). I've worked in many systems where this was not at all the case, and there was a hard-limit at some point where the feature simply shut down.