> YAML is good for human readable configuration, with some notable caveats. But its terrible for being a secret programming language where the only way to execu

> YAML is good for human readable configuration, with some notable caveats. But its terrible for being a secret programming language where the only way to execute it is to put in a PR request, commit to a live branch etc. Bingo, people keep implementing incredibly complex DSLs that are based on YAML, and users keep shoving more complexity into that YAML since it's the only tool they have to interface with $THING, and all of a sudden nobody can comprehend what is actually going on just by reading it. It's not a problem of YAML per se (another format would just have its own footguns / pain points), it's a risk with any DSL: you can create something so complex that it's actually less clear and harder to manage than it would have been with a normal programming language from the start.