In general I agree but lately I've been wondering if software defined everything and easy universal reconfiguration actually brings lower reliability (and secur

In general I agree but lately I've been wondering if software defined everything and easy universal reconfiguration actually brings lower reliability (and security?). For instance software engineers and automated processes apparently brought down Google Cloud's SDN across several regions for several hours a few days ago. They may not have been able to do that if configuration updates were more manual. The question is whether whatever benefit they gain from SDN worth the additional risk.