Perhaps put more simply, operating in production has a lot of intrinsic complexity that will probably surface in the tooling, and if you constantly reinvent to

Perhaps put more simply, operating in production has a lot of intrinsic complexity that will probably surface in the tooling, and if you constantly reinvent to "fix" the complexity you'll eventually end up putting up it back. That's how you end up with the modern javascript tooling hellscape where it looks like no one was around to tell a bright young developer "no"