This sounds like dogma. While I do agree there are some pieces which are over complicated or just plain bad code, on the whole it's more that the API's aren't q

This sounds like dogma. While I do agree there are some pieces which are over complicated or just plain bad code, on the whole it's more that the API's aren't quite right specifically for people who want to integrate with it rather than use it. containerd exists pretty much because of this observation.