100% agree and that has been my experience too. It also makes testing the logic locally much easier, just run the script in the appropriate container. The pipe

100% agree and that has been my experience too. It also makes testing the logic locally much easier, just run the script in the appropriate container. The pipeline DSLs, because they are not full programming languages have to include lots of specific features and options and if you want something slightly outside of what they are designed for, you are out of luck. In a way it feels like how graphics were in the age of fixed-pipeline, when there had to be a complex API to cover all use cases yet it was not flexible enough.