[dasil003]

> The cult of the five minute demo is real

This is unfortunately necessary as code eats the world, and the number of programmers, tools and ecosystems proliferates. Popularity is necessary for infrastructure tools to get enough eyeballs and resources to achieve stability. It's not enough for experts with decades of experience to design really solid but arcane tools, because the flood of new startups with young engineers coming in saying "do we really need that?" will overwhelm than faster than all the failures can be pointed out.

Ultimately, the quality of the tools is orthogonal to the presentation. My perception is Hashicorp has done much better in this regard than Docker, so there's that at least. Only time will tell how it really shapes up over time, but I believe Hashicorp tools are seeing massive uptake for more reasons than just good marketing.