Salt states can very quickly/easily become unweildy as, unlike Ansibble, you can throw Jinja2 everywhere. It becomes far more tempting to create multiple states

Salt states can very quickly/easily become unweildy as, unlike Ansibble, you can throw Jinja2 everywhere. It becomes far more tempting to create multiple states with a Jinja2 loop, or worse, macros, and before you know it you have a huge mess of what I like to call "spaghetti Jinja". Templated YAML really isn't pretty to work with.