Exactly, they solved a bunch of problems that weren't really related to cron and overall, IMO, made the situation worse. High resource usage so they moved the

Exactly, they solved a bunch of problems that weren't really related to cron and overall, IMO, made the situation worse. High resource usage so they moved the actual jobs off-server. Not cron related. Crontab is hard to edit so we'll create an arbitrary data structure that'll be both hard to edit and non-standard. Good job. Our jobs are failing so instead of better error handling we'll just run them again manually. Great. And apparently they've never heard of cron logging to syslog.