We may think that an automated system requires less understanding of it in order to operate it. But from the other point of view, you have to know what you are

We may think that an automated system requires less understanding of it in order to operate it. But from the other point of view, you have to know what you are doing, consequences of even an small change are big. This is one of the things that happens with windows, getting up a server is so easy, that people believe that they don't have to understand what's under the hood, and then, we get a lot of miss-configuration and operational issues.