> It's a logging library. You don't reconfigure logging, you just make another logger and use it.

Prior company had a shared plugin that let you turn up the logging for a given logger remotely for 30 minutes (it self reset). Extremely helpful for incident debugging.

Now we can have an interesting discussion about whether that capability is worth the complexity, but that’s a very different discussion than unilaterally declaring that other people’s use cases just don’t exist.

> Despite what people claim, the Java culture of loving complexity never did go away.

Do you develop in Java? Because I do, and your takes don’t match my daily experience one bit. My experience going from Spring 3 to Spring Boot 2 is in fact one of reducing complexity (goodbye XML bean configuration!) and to more “it just works” situations than before.