Having implemented it across 10k+ servers in 12 datacenters I'd say he means Puppet is overly complex for what provides. Kind of like Docker. I think people equate Chef to the same over-complexity.
Having now used Salt and starting to play with Ansible I'm growing an extreme dislike for Puppet and the weeks of my life I can never recover dealing with things that Salt has made so much easier.
Having now used Salt and starting to play with Ansible I'm growing an extreme dislike for Puppet and the weeks of my life I can never recover dealing with things that Salt has made so much easier.