I see software as a form of literacy - and I think this is a good point of view for your issue here. The bash commands and virtualisation host are words or per

I see software as a form of literacy - and I think this is a good point of view for your issue here. The bash commands and virtualisation host are words or perhaps "cliches" - short pieces of literate work that are available to everyone. And yes you don't have to remember them any more than you need to know every word in the OED. But people can then string those words together to make their own unique literate work - to set up your virtualisation host in the right way. It's possible to do that in some fill in the variables way but it is waaaay better for you to shape what you need. Anyway, that's my take. Yes it's sensible to put the weird ass params to X in a single script and forget about it, I came across one of my own not touched for 18 months. But then I was able to read it, remember the important bits and adjust it. I agree with you - I think