I was also on the side of hands-on operations in SRE and it earned me no friends in that org to be sure. But I like to think that point of view is still basically correct. The "annealing" people have been working on their wacky automaton for more than a decade now and a critical reading of their publication reveals that it still fundamentally doesn't work.

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/prodspec-and...