I am coming at this from a competing perspective so take it with a grain of salt...isn't the whole idea of the declarative approach that users/Ops can focus onl

I am coming at this from a competing perspective so take it with a grain of salt...isn't the whole idea of the declarative approach that users/Ops can focus only on specifying what they want and let whatever target execution run-time handle the actual semantics? An approach that goes back to relying on procedural programming languages as a primary means of configuration seems like it defeats the purpose. I am working in this space, mainly focused on configurations: https://youtu.be/4yepPOznakk https://youtu.be/4yepPOznakk The approach we've adopted is to maintain the declarative presentation while providing a way to plug in procedural language programmability without using templates or other similar concoctions (ksonnet..etc).