I agree completely. I just need to close the loop, so that people who use it are inspired to add to it, rather than frustrated trying to understand it. Once I can provide a trivial example of using it that makes sense, I'll ship. I can promise you I'm not holding out for some ideal!

I also shouldn't predict the end of the ops department, until I've had it running in production with a significant number of users.

I think it would be better to say- my goal is to have the ops department working on really interesting stuff, rather than shepherding a fleet of servers, every one of which has a different configuration.