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Seems to be it's an ebb and flow of complexity; sometimes it increases like with sidecar proxies and their issues, like how they might listen on NICs differently, or how they cause grey failures, and sometimes it decreases like when the sidecar moves to the kernel and gets rewritten in eBPF and we can remove another ip filtering-firewall-chain. So right now it seems to be a bit of an ebb, as these things are becoming moduralised.