It's better nowadays, specially if you go for the paid version, I think they saw the writing on the wall that they wouldn't really have a future proof business

It's better nowadays, specially if you go for the paid version, I think they saw the writing on the wall that they wouldn't really have a future proof business if they kept on the "config file for everything" mantra, there's even a prometheus module you can bundle so you don't have to use the horrible metrics they had. I think it's pretty good people are building these proxies as it's forcing the entrenched vendors to move.