Cloud definitely helps, there. People pay money for clouds because they find ways to hire lots of SREs :) For simplifying, yes probably, but it's hard. For ins

Cloud definitely helps, there. People pay money for clouds because they find ways to hire lots of SREs :) For simplifying, yes probably, but it's hard. For instance relational databases require quite a lot of skill to run, even if you pay for a managed cloud DB. The cloud operator will handle some work like backups but some other problems like schema migrations, sudden query plan changes etc can still trip you up in production. To simplify that away you need a fundamentally different approach, maybe something like FoundationDB and Permazen. But then of course you lose a lot of the features that make people want the RDBMS engines.