I think the YAML syntax is definitely one of the weakest points of Ansible user experience, especially if you're creating complex books/roles. It's extremely lo

I think the YAML syntax is definitely one of the weakest points of Ansible user experience, especially if you're creating complex books/roles. It's extremely long, and when you try to do anything slightly more complex in the YAML syntax itself, e.g. handle an error of a module, it gets very hairy. As a side note, Bash + Ansible tends not to be an amazing combination, unless you can write idempotent Bash scripts, IMHO. That sounds like a recipe for false safety, where you think you wrote strong automation, and someone that is used to pure Ansible will quickly realize that it does not work in specific conditions, e.g. after second time or after specific conditions are run multiple times in a row.