There is significant value in text blob workflows. Requiring the definition of everything that makes up your stack to be stored in a format that is not text ad

There is significant value in text blob workflows. Requiring the definition of everything that makes up your stack to be stored in a format that is not text adds complexity to the disaster recovery process, not to mention mutation, diffing, reviewing, approving, promoting, etc. For places where a single environment that is updated in place and requires little/no approval to do so, sure. Personally I really like textual definition of infrastructure and configuration, and disagree that it is end days for them.