Does anyone write k8s manifests in raw yaml? They're so complicated that they're generated using some templating language (helm or kustomize or whatever is popu

Does anyone write k8s manifests in raw yaml? They're so complicated that they're generated using some templating language (helm or kustomize or whatever is popular these days, I'm a little out of the loop). So you still have something programmatic. Think of Nix as just a better and more principled templating language. (I mean, look at NixOS configs: they're much closer to "plain structured files" than "programs".) The promise that I see (I haven't seen this fully realized but it should be possible) is that instead of yaml plus some ad-hoc templating language plus dockerfile plus makefile, everything is in a single language top to bottom.