In case you want a fresh opinion, every time I stumble upon a config like this, I wish it was just a .json, .js, .py, heck even .pl or .php file rather than tha

In case you want a fresh opinion, every time I stumble upon a config like this, I wish it was just a .json, .js, .py, heck even .pl or .php file rather than that. Why. It’s unclear what’s the syntactic structure of it at a glance. Yes, in stricter languages there’s more of /[()[\]{}"'`,;]/, but also I know for sure what’s a literal, what’s an identifier, what’s a key, what’s a number or a date. The whole structure and ordering is obvious. Same issue I have with nginx, terraform and other ad-hoc half-languages half-formats half-templates. The worst part is that you have to hack them once a year, but it never “sinks in” for good even if you read the docs.