Sure. Claiming "too verbose/magical" for a library that adds structure to generally unstructured, smattered config data seems a bit misplaced. You are entitled

Sure. Claiming "too verbose/magical" for a library that adds structure to generally unstructured, smattered config data seems a bit misplaced. You are entitled to your opinion but I don't think trying to defend your stance with homemade env parsing functions while writing an authoritative sounding blog post helps the community as a whole when there are sound libraries and patterns that solve this exact problem.