That type of criticism is a bit broad. While it has all the hallmarks of a commercial product trying to fit every type of customer, on the other hand the whole

That type of criticism is a bit broad. While it has all the hallmarks of a commercial product trying to fit every type of customer, on the other hand the whole point is having a centralized architecture for Ansible. This is something desirable as soon as you outgrow using it for ad-hoc jobs, and there is a payoff compared to just scripting in bash or dockerfiles. Of course the code has to be adapter for it, but it's not anything like a complete rewrite.