> Smithy trait seem to be an escape hatch for everything, I believe it could be used to achieve the same but maybe not easier. No doubt! This is definitely par

> Smithy trait seem to be an escape hatch for everything, I believe it could be used to achieve the same but maybe not easier. No doubt! This is definitely part of our thinking - there's a lot of things that are _possible_ in Smithy (and OpenAPI), but it requires you to be an expert and really understand how things work. For 90% of the use cases, it should be dead simple. For the remaining 10%, it's okay to rely on more complex features like plugins and traits.