(disclaimer - founder of Puppet) Just to be clear, this has always been a core goal with Puppet - very low dependencies to make it easy to adopt. There are so

(disclaimer - founder of Puppet) Just to be clear, this has always been a core goal with Puppet - very low dependencies to make it easy to adopt. There are some real downsides - we have to do a lot more coding, and it can be tough to get all of the hot newness - but we think the users benefit from a much simpler solution that's much easier to support.