We are at the breathless-but-low-information-posts-about-plain-text-formats point in the cycle.
There's a massive push to add unnecessary complexity to everything out there, because complexity pays all our bills.
I'm just saying it is cyclical. Databases => plain text => single-file databases, repeat. shared hosting => dedicated hosting => vms => jamstack, repeat, etc.
Can't sell complexity without oversimplicity or simplicity without overcomplexity.
But this is quite a long blog post, with typical blog flourishes, about not very much.