This is the problem that we need to solve; "How develop/maintain a complex software and at same time keep it simple to set up without a huge bottleneck with Op

This is the problem that we need to solve; "How develop/maintain a complex software and at same time keep it simple to set up without a huge bottleneck with Ops team" If state(ful) is a problem, How about KILL Stateful? Maybe we need to (re)think about how we are handle with microservices? If true, that's is an good hypothesis to validate in a dev perspective.