> The point of these complications is that you are able to travel farther and faster on a jumbo jet than on a bicycle and these journeys will take you to many m

> The point of these complications is that you are able to travel farther and faster on a jumbo jet than on a bicycle and these journeys will take you to many more interesting places (once you are set up, that is). That's the theory of those complications. Often it never pays off. You can have too many moving parts. What development teams need to do is assess the TCO of the various tools they use to see if they can reduce it and get a sense of whether they are getting a real advantage after they have.