Ah, another variant of "because I barely understand something, it's too complicated for anyone to use safely" argument. Which would be an OK argument if you were the smartest person on the planet. Or in charge of making sure nobody else ever does something wrong on the internet.
Quite negative article, makes what are good points in isolation like the fact that if L2 shenanigans are happening L3 routing tools can't properly characterize them. Ooookay, that's true, but what if you don't care and want to characterize what L3 routing is doing?
But it might not work! Oookay, that's true. Then we don't use it in this case. And so on.
Sounds like the problem is the author's experience was more with poor quality network "engineers" than tools that "aren't real" enough.
I suspect that I should not enjoy a Thanksgiving meal with this man. He may be more the bad uncle than he thinks he is.
Quite negative article, makes what are good points in isolation like the fact that if L2 shenanigans are happening L3 routing tools can't properly characterize them. Ooookay, that's true, but what if you don't care and want to characterize what L3 routing is doing?
But it might not work! Oookay, that's true. Then we don't use it in this case. And so on.
Sounds like the problem is the author's experience was more with poor quality network "engineers" than tools that "aren't real" enough.
I suspect that I should not enjoy a Thanksgiving meal with this man. He may be more the bad uncle than he thinks he is.