"There is a huge disconnect between the elegant high-level ideas discussed on the whiteboard (while presumably sipping cappuccinos) and the grimy, grungy, terri

"There is a huge disconnect between the elegant high-level ideas discussed on the whiteboard (while presumably sipping cappuccinos) and the grimy, grungy, terrible command-line bullshittery required to set up a computing environment suitable for implementing those ideas in code." Welcome to real life outside academia, where you need to step down from the ivory tower and actually get your hands dirty. Incidentally we never had automatic configuration and deployment as easy as now with all the recent tools.