I think far too many things have been absurdly overcomplicated beyond their need. Shell scripts were fine. curl-hash-run doesn’t need nodejs. Ansible and Chef are actually overkill if you’ve only got one or three annoying pet servers left at work. The burden and overhead of having to constantly update the automation that was supposed to make your life simpler isn’t worth it.

You can do a lot more as a team when you only use brand name tools where they actually make sense, and write some bash otherwise. And guess what - if you come back to a bash script 3 years later you won’t first have to jump through 17 version updates, schema changes, and major schisms in the best practice wars that happened while you didn’t pay attention.