Well, despite all the protestations that the letter tries to surface, some of which are legitimate -- sometimes it really is:
"We did not design our system to make simple changes simple, and are now paying the price for it in the gap of we can deliver versus what our customers intuitively believe and should expect as response time for simple changes."
"We did not design our system to make simple changes simple, and are now paying the price for it in the gap of we can deliver versus what our customers intuitively believe and should expect as response time for simple changes."