As someone in charge of cleaning up the mess in a company that has 800+ employees and 300+ developers, I can only agree. My company's infrastructure was never

As someone in charge of cleaning up the mess in a company that has 800+ employees and 300+ developers, I can only agree. My company's infrastructure was never tended to and was apparently a free for all for a few years. A year or two ago, it was finally decided the free for all needed to end and all the developers saw their SSH root access removed. My team of 5 SREs is now facing a constant backlash from developers frustrated at the rotten infrastructure, constant bugs, and impossibility to ssh into machines. We're slowly fixing the mess, migrating to Kubernetes and things are starting to get better, but god, how painful it is. So yea, in its infancy a startup's infrastructure can't be perfect, but every single shortcut you're taking now, you'll pay double down the line. Choose your path wisely.