I understand the different need being espoused here, but I think it paints with an overly broad brush.
My company is what people would colloquially refer to as a startup, although it is by most formal definitions an established company (more than five years old, profitable and self-funded, no external money, defined product and stable customer base).
Under the US SBA classification we are a small business by revenue, and we have three people.
Little frustrates us more than sophisticated features being locked behind enterprise packages, because we tend to select toward enterprise feature sets by default. We are small, but we make it a priority to do business in ways that most small businesses don’t focus on. This has been wonderfully successful for us because we have the kind of customers who will ask “how do you manage backups, and why should I trust you to do that?”
We can answer those sorts of questions with the same kind of robust architecture people expect from much larger providers. We can point to adhering to the 3-2-1 rule with three different copies of customer data (one production, two backups) maintained in three locations managed by two (legally distinct) clouds/data centers, each at least 500 miles apart, two of which are resistant to ransomware attacks (the backups in S3), all of which are protected with hardware MFA. We have a fourth copy as a failsafe in the form of rolling VM backups made every 24 hours, saved for approximately 7 days.
That is in large part due to using S3.
Sophisticated feature sets are extremely valuable for us even if we aren’t an enterprise. They allow us to put our money where our mouth is.