scorchingheat

Something I learned recently: Mike (the lead singer) is now the bass player for Goldfinger, another late-90s ska/punk staple.

Your proposed solution to overly complex systems seems to be to ignore the requirements that make them complex in the first place. If that works for you, this is a perfectly fine approach. But most companies with actual signed SLAs won't accept "we'll just have a few seconds of downtime/high latency every time a developer deploys something to production #yolo".