I'm all for trying simpler approaches and have written some tooling in bash myself, but at this point Python is pre-installed on many servers like bash is, a la

I'm all for trying simpler approaches and have written some tooling in bash myself, but at this point Python is pre-installed on many servers like bash is, a large benefit of Ansible is the VAST number of modules already written for Ansible. Imagine if this grew to support all of Ansibles features and modules, but did so in bash. shudders