[fulafel]

Our ability to build, understand, analyse, evolve, secure and troubleshoot systems depends on our ability to reason about and understand them. The more complex a system is the less we are able to do the aforementioned things.

[TheNewsIsHere]

This is a wonderful point, and it doesn’t mean that some people can’t hold “all of k8s” in their heads. At least theoretically some can, most can’t.

The simpler a system is, typically the easier it is to explain and maintain. In many businesses that takes a front seat. Some do need this level of complexity though. They’re both valid when applied appropriately.