To rephrase your point with tongue-firmly-in-cheek: "many technical people look at products and think the hard part is wrangling systemic complexity in a good,

To rephrase your point with tongue-firmly-in-cheek: "many technical people look at products and think the hard part is wrangling systemic complexity in a good, sustainable and reliable way" but in reality, that's not the hard part. If your product is successful enough that systemic complexity is your chief problem, congratulations, you've made it further than most startups - which die from lack of demand, lack of paying customers, and lack of users giving feedback.