There is some truth in this, yes. On the other hand, maven (mentioned by the author) clearly was very successful at abstracting from the tools we use. I can rem

There is some truth in this, yes. On the other hand, maven (mentioned by the author) clearly was very successful at abstracting from the tools we use. I can remember how much time I wasted with build scripts and dependency management and all that before. (And I still do on some other platforms.) The problems only arise if the abstraction is not working well enough. This might indeed be true for containers - there is maybe too much complexity in there that currently can't be properly encapsulated.