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> but is amazingly hard to do well - but incredibly rewarding.

Isn't this true of everything. The greater the reward the more effort required in most scenarios? I do agree, Elasticsearch can take some trial and error along with experimentation to get right!

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Yeah, that's nearly a tautology. I guess in this sense what I mean is that, there's a much deeper Trough of Disillusionment when it comes to learning how to properly configure & tune ES to your needs, as opposed to a lot of other tools I've used over the years. It's very easy to set up, but also very hard to get right, which I'd imagine causes some people to settle or give up.

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