I have seen tiny teams fail to replicate their single-host prod environment in dev and test.

I have seen tiny teams with 3 release branches cause outage after outage of their tiny SaaS product as they couldn't keep track of what changes they merged where.

I have seen days of downtime when nobody could re-create their old-ass environments that nobody ever documented or updated, their code dependent on systems that didn't even have an active repository anymore.

I have seen C-beams glitter in the dark by the tanhauser gate.

All these moments, lost in time, like ssh keystrokes in a container.