A crypto library is "essential complexity" and running a node.js runtime inside a container in kubernetes node in a virtual machine on a server owned by a hyperscalar cloudprovider is "accidental complexity". I'll take the crypto library any day of the week but if I get to decide how to host a webapplication I'll stay away from that fragile tower of abstractions. As it happens I currently make a living from that "accidental complexity" so it is not a matter of skill, I just see it as unnecessary.
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