If you allow me a bit of pedantry, it's infinite "for all intents and purposes". It doesn't mean you can request civilizational levels of compute, but for a blog, a crud, an ETL and such, that is regular use cases with sensible scale you can absorb any elastic demand.
Having said that, I agree with you. You have to request limit increases often and can't scale even in those instances if you don't plan ahead.
Having said that, I agree with you. You have to request limit increases often and can't scale even in those instances if you don't plan ahead.