No not defective; sounds like you could use some ansible in your life. It's easy to misuse ansible though. People try to consume it like puppet and use it for

No not defective; sounds like you could use some ansible in your life. It's easy to misuse ansible though. People try to consume it like puppet and use it for whole-system-declarative-state, which is usually not worth the squeeze in ansible. Treat it as glorified bash-scripting with smarter data handling and yaml-driven config files, and you'll have success.