Ansible should never have become "the standard". It was always obviously flawed (YAML is an abomination for long configuration and templating; ssh doesn't scale

Ansible should never have become "the standard". It was always obviously flawed (YAML is an abomination for long configuration and templating; ssh doesn't scale). It's only advantage was that it was easy to start with and easy to remove. Why Red Hat decided to buy it and then everyone decided even more to standardise on it is a headscratcher.