Yes, exactly. That is what the final sentence was meant to indicate,

"We’re moving past the days where we take an operating system off the shelf and plug things into it until it can serve our application and into the days of purpose built OSes that push software complexity into the realm of software engineer."

I wasn't trying to indicate that we 'solved' this, but rather that the approach of managing software in the OS layer was putting it in the wrong place.

Configuration management is definitely still a problem. But I think handling it in a compartmentalized area separate from the base OS makes sense.

Thanks for the feedback.