I mean that's just pseudocode to illustrate my point. You'd certainly want a more structured way to express specified vs actual value, not just similarly named

I mean that's just pseudocode to illustrate my point. You'd certainly want a more structured way to express specified vs actual value, not just similarly named fields This is also not a new idea, though I can't recall if there's a name for it. Kubernetes leans heavily on this pattern, for example