I think one piece of context that's possibly missing from these GOV.UK stories is how long the people involved have been working to get into the good position they are in now. I remember going to a talk (probably at XPDay in London) about 5 years ago and being impressed by the huge amount of organisational work they had done already. They were saying that they were expecting really good results in the years ahead, but that it was a massive challenge to solve all of the people problems up front. If any of the GDS team are reading, I'd love to see some more blog posts about how the non-technical hurdles were overcome.