You can make development more complex to match production and then layer more and more complexity on to to make it convenient (and brittle) or you could simplif

You can make development more complex to match production and then layer more and more complexity on to to make it convenient (and brittle) or you could simplify production so that it is straightforward, replicable, and bulletproof. I know which one I prefer. It would be better to simplify and streamline the system than to layer abstraction upon abstraction is a bizarrely escalating tower that needs more complex "fixes" to counter the complexity, which increases complexity for the next round.