I find YAML, for all its flaws, to strike a lot better balance between usability and clarity than the alternatives. But whatever, people have their own preferen

I find YAML, for all its flaws, to strike a lot better balance between usability and clarity than the alternatives. But whatever, people have their own preferences. Ultimately, I don’t think it would be possible to avoid the sorts of problems people run into in any configuration language unless you have a strict type system on the config itself. But strict type systems on config have been tried and end up causing their own distinctive problems. In the end people will complain about whatever their interface is to a complex system. They will always make errors in configuration and that will always be annoying.