I work for Red Hat as an OpenShift Consultant, so I'm on the bleeding edge of change and am constantly pushing boundaries.

Don't tell the boss or the customers, but most of the time when release notes for a new version come out, I look at them and go "WTF, why do we need that, I better do some research." It's fast changing, complex as hell, and absolutely brutal. That said most things are there for a reason and once I dig in I usually see the need.

That said I do love it despite its warts. There's no doubt some Stockholm Syndrome at play here, but I love the API (which is pretty curlable btw, a mark of a great API IMHO) and the principles (declarative, everything's a YAML/JSON object in etcd, etc). I see it the same way I did C++ (which I also loved). It gives you great power which you can use to build an elegant, robust system, or you can create an unmaintainable, complex, monster of a nightmare. It's up to you.