Strong agree. I think it's not entirely unlike programming languages. If I sit down and write out all the features I want from a programming language, I can't

Strong agree. I think it's not entirely unlike programming languages. If I sit down and write out all the features I want from a programming language, I can't have it. They straight-up contradict each other. As a simple example, I want simplicity and a rich type system. Nope. Not gonna happen. Intrinsically at odds with each other. And there are many other such places, more subtle than that but no less real. Config has the same thing going on. I've made my peace with just doing whatever's convenient in the moment and not stressing about it. It certainly isn't worth bringing in a new syntax my local team has never heard about because it's just the perfect little config syntax. It's very hard for any config syntax to be better enough than what came before to justify adding another tech to the stack.