Few things grind my gears worse than _templated_ yaml. It equivalent of building up a json object using only string concatenation. Most people would raise their

Few things grind my gears worse than _templated_ yaml. It equivalent of building up a json object using only string concatenation. Most people would raise their eyebrows at that, yet templates yaml is seen as very normal. I think in part it's a skills mismatch - a lot of devops/sysadmin type folks I encounter, while very talented, are not prolific coders. So code-forward solutions like jsonnet, starlark, dhall, nix, etc. are rather unfamiliar familiar. It doesn't help that all but one of those languages mentioned are odd little functional languages, increasing the familiarity gap even further.