I don't think it's ironic: maybe it's not intuitive / not easy to do! But there's utility in talking about it. If you teach people that good engineers prepare

I don't think it's ironic: maybe it's not intuitive / not easy to do! But there's utility in talking about it. If you teach people that good engineers prepare for Google scale, they will lean towards that. If you teach that unnecessary complexity is painful and slows you down, they will lean towards that. Maybe we need a Rosetta stone of different simple and complex ways to do common engineering stuff!