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I'm not saying your grandma needs to be able to do it, exactly, but I'm sure you'd agree more servers is better when it comes to the fediverse.
I have a CS background and I've been sysadminning for 30 years, but that doesn't mean I understand (or have any interest in learning) Rails and how it works.
With sysadmin, you sometimes only touch a particular system a couple of times a year, so even when you learn things during one upgrade you forget them again.
In my own project (Moodle) I tried to make every upgrade as automatic as possible. It takes care of all the database updates from any version X to any later version Y, for example without making you work your way through every single version upgrade in-between. Another thing is to make it very tolerant of older versions of dependencies so that the software still works, but it just misses a feature. These are not hard things to do.
On a positive note, what I did last time is feed all of the Mastodon upgrade docs into an AI and got it to sort it out for me, which was very helpful.
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