What kind of an answer is that? This software is perfect the way it is, you’re just to inept to hold it right?

A high availability protocol should not leak into the client. It should be able to discover other nodes. It should not land in broken states so easily. It should not limit the number of writers. It should not error during failover.

Are these hard problems? Yes. Should we just accept that things are hard because that’s how the gods have given them to us? No.