It has a Kotlin strongly typed DSL for pipelines, i absolutely despite Jenkins and Groovy, so many bugs causing huge issues due to weak typing and lack of testing :(
Great post! You touched on something there thats been bugging me last few years, testing is non existent in devops/sre world so developers who hate testing and do not understand it is core to good engineering seem to gravitate towards devops roles as they can hack their way thru their day all while creating tons of tech debt.
One thing I noticed about whole SRE/devops scene lately is that there seems to be no grasp of the KISS principle, there are people building elaborate glass houses on top of k8s (tho k8s+pipelines is very useful its easy to get carried away)
another observation is that the people who are not good programmers but are good at appearing to get stuff done (but who create tons of tech debt) seem to fall naturally into SRE roles, as there is no testing culture in pipeline driven development
SRE currently is like the wild west, it be many years before it starts to resemble engineering
The 2 year window and article 50 was an addition from UK ironically
Also they did not have to lodge the article 50 letter when they did, they could have spent years preparing and figuring out what it is exactly they want to accomplish.
Finally the EU gave an extension twice now for them to figure out what they want, instead of doing that UK govt doubled down on stupid.
I think the UK has a problem with being an equal and has not got over its loss of empire, just look at how they treat their own constituent countries such as Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales