[hueving]

>Why do people think BGP is complicated?

Read your own paragraph before this question. Why do I need to run another process to exchange routes and configure a mesh or a route reflector? As an admin that's just another mess of processes and communication to worry about.

Just because BGP is easy for you does not mean it's easy for most server admins and devs without heavy networking backgrounds.

[X-Istence]

Wait what? How else should we be exchanging routes? Should we shove them into a distributed key value store and then having each of the nodes pull out the routes and installing them?

> As an admin that's just another mess of processes and communication to worry about.

Yet we fully expect admins to understand and build HA redundant clusters for databases, or how to manage and update all the machines under their control, and a variety of other tasks.

There is nothing inherently different about running a BGP speaking daemon. It's all config.

I don't have a heavy networking background at all. I'm a software engineer that's currently working as a system architect, but even I can understand something as simple as a route distribution system.