People have a desire to use the 'big' tools instead of trying to solve the real problem.
People both underestimate the power of their desktop machine and the 'old' tools and overestimate the size of their task.
- Edward Tufte
Applies to more than just design.
Not only that, people seems to love claiming that they're "big data", perhaps because it makes them sound impressive and bigger than they are.
Very few of us will ever do projects that justifies using tools like Hadoop and to few us are willing to accept that our data fits in SQLite.
SQLite does all of that and more with every release (https://sqlite.org/testing.html). There's a reason I consider their test coverage impressive...
Specs be damned!
I need to start selling boxes