I think using Ansible is not by itself a problem. There are many things I don't like about Ansible and I don't think it's particularly robust, but it is an imp

I think using Ansible is not by itself a problem. There are many things I don't like about Ansible and I don't think it's particularly robust, but it is an improvement over manually written scripts, most of the time, because writing robust scripts is not easy. What I think "senior developers" are usually disparaging is using tools like ORMs without appropriate understanding of how they work, and thus being unable to recognize when they don't suit the task at hand.