These are well-lit paths, that try to make it easy to take a server you want to run in production, and give you reasonable releases/monitoring/canarying for free (e.g. no one should have to configure something that stops pushes that are causing crashes of the updates tasks).
And even more importantly, the teams responsible have (at least in the past) done a pretty decent job of keeping things up-to-date and automatically moving you onto newer versions of systems. My services on Boq/Pod have been moved to new rollout-management platforms multiple times and I didn't have to do anything besides learn the new UIs.
