I think you make an important point. It used to be I'd have to worry about the OS layer, and that was it. Now I have half a dozen layers running between my code

I think you make an important point. It used to be I'd have to worry about the OS layer, and that was it. Now I have half a dozen layers running between my code and the actual die executing instructions and as consequence of that I've lost a considerable amount of control. The funny thing is I end spending just as much time trying to debug or figure out the other layers, looking at you AWS IAM, that I don't feel I am that much more productive, I've just taken what my code needed to do and scatterred it to the 4 winds. Now instead of dealing with an OS and the code I'm fighting with docker, and a cloud service, and permissions and network and a dozen other things. Honestly this feels like the OOP hype era of Object Database and Java EE all over again, just this time substitute OOP for tooling.