Comment by hrmtst93837

I've found simplicity rarely earns promotions because it's invisible on a P&L and executives respond to hard numbers. In one role I converted a refactor into a business case with a 12-month cost model, instrumented KPIs in Prometheus and Grafana, and ran a canary that cut MTTR by 60% and reduced on-call pages by two-thirds. Companies reward new features over quiet reliability, so slow feature velocity for a quarter while you amortize the simplification. If you want the promotion, make a one-page spreadsheet tying the change to SLO improvements, on-call hours saved, and dollar savings, then own the instrumentation so the numbers are undeniable.