I think it's both. They're boring if you need them, because you probably started implementing these things over a decade ago. They're boring if you don't need i

I think it's both. They're boring if you need them, because you probably started implementing these things over a decade ago. They're boring if you don't need it because you don't need it - e.g. maybe you're a small team able to work on a single monolithic codebase effectively.