> They could only do it for a handful of servers, change request took months and the systems were not to be 'touched'.

Those old ways of doing things were indeed slower than they needed to be in many cases, and I'm glad that we sped them up. I don't believe that we needed to throw the baby away with the bathwater though.

The problem now is that we build systems which are unmanageable and unmanaged. 'Throw it in a container and let it run' is not scalable either: it scales neither security not maintainability. Instead of scaling, it just punts.

Enabling one to do something one shouldn't do (i.e., deploy insecure software into production) is not a virtue.