These are all great points. Unfortunately most of these issues manifest themselves with a delay. Which makes for very fun conversations between the dev team and

These are all great points. Unfortunately most of these issues manifest themselves with a delay. Which makes for very fun conversations between the dev team and the ops team. My cynical self views garbage collection as technical debt for memory management. Sure, it's unfair because modern GCs will be way better at managing memory for medium complexity projects than any home-grown solution. But when the project gets complex—as many mature ones do—memory management which was so blissfully delegated to the GC becomes a sore issue. But by that time, it's in the context of a lot of complexity going on so it is not only harder to troubleshoot but harder to remediate.