As you pointed out, this is already pretty common. As someone who's tried this before, it's hard to find the right balance. To setup a dead simple kafka confi

As you pointed out, this is already pretty common. As someone who's tried this before, it's hard to find the right balance. To setup a dead simple kafka config is about 10 lines of shell, so simple, it almost doesn't make sense to do. A complex kafka setup is pretty involved (relatively speaking) and becomes domain specific pretty quickly, at which point, it probably becomes less usable / understandable to someone who is trying to learn / get interested. On the whole, I agree with you. Some of the open source software that exists now is truly amazing and I think lots of people are defaulting to less-the-optimal solutions because they just don't have exposure to the latest and greatest.