Weird take: rather the opposite in my team. We look for the simpler solutions due to maintenance burden. Also, we actually deal with very complex tech; virtualization. Our whole premise is to create tooling for convenience, which therefore involves abstractions.

Some complexity in that case is needed, but its aim is to provide a cleaner/simpler access, which is often opinionated, limited to the purpose we have: deployment of development tools for containers.

If you want to experiment, show off as the article implies, start a hobby project.

Edit: removed some fat-fingered typos when I wrote this on a phone