We rely heavily on Ansible and your description seems very accurate. I worry we have too much invested at this point to consider anything else. Still would pick

We rely heavily on Ansible and your description seems very accurate. I worry we have too much invested at this point to consider anything else. Still would pick it over Chef/Puppet. Salt does look interesting but it was too young when we started. I don't know if we would be trading Ansible's shortcomings for Salt's.