I'm late to the conversation, but one thing I see causing a lot of unnecessary complexity is applying the same ideas and concepts at different levels of abstrac

I'm late to the conversation, but one thing I see causing a lot of unnecessary complexity is applying the same ideas and concepts at different levels of abstraction because it "intuitively" feels right. I'd like to call this "appeal to symmetry" or "appeal to completionism". Example: * You have a CI/CD pipeline deploying an application artefact though test->staging->prod. * You update your pipeline to treat the deployment script itself as an artefact that gets promoted as well, because hey — shouldn't our test code also be tested? And it's just a couple of configuration changes. * You say "well everything else is an artefact so how come our pipelines aren't?" and start implementing CI/CD for your CI/CD for your CI/CD.