Craig McDermott- Yes I am well aware a MS team is an part of an Office Group which in turn includes a SharePoint group. I stopped using Sub sites a while ago and moved to MS teams, it is far more flexible. A site collection is a far more rigid structure and not as able to flex when teams shift. Thanks for the offer of the setup working, but I have exampes of my own I could show this set up working (but only at my own local level, not company wide) I am well aware of site collection design, having worked as a site admin/designer for many SharePoint versions. I think the problem with our conversation is that we are talking different scales. I work for one of the largest global IT services company in the world, servicing hundreds of different sectors, thousands of customers, a site collection for people to "create news articles" is not going to cut it, hundreds of site collections in the manner you describe would not achieve the requirements of functionally, scale and speed of deployment. Neither is it acceptable to make the business wait to provision simply functionality because we need power users to do it