I'm all for highly distributed systems, I love them; I'm all for correctness, and resilience, and so many other fun things. That's my bread and butter.
But SERIOUSLY. How the fuck is it that we ended up with this absolutely bimodal nonsense of "one single static binary of goodiness" vs "500,000 node compute cluster of goodiness" and this absolutely hellish quagmire of disgusting bullshit in the middle?