> declarative in yaml Aw gawd no. Why do test framework authors repeatedly think this is a good idea? Everywhere I’ve worked that has embraced such a framework

> declarative in yaml Aw gawd no. Why do test framework authors repeatedly think this is a good idea? Everywhere I’ve worked that has embraced such a framework (often robot), the suites always eventually outgrow the capabilities of whatever DSL the framework provides. Even with escape hatches into an established language, you turn the majority of test editing into second class citizen, because there is no chance that your ”test-IDE” will beat IntelliJ or VSCode. Developers don’t want to touch such test code and testers do the lazy thing and copy paste instead of building appropriate fixtures. Do you really want to relearn how to define a constant in flavor of the month test-dsl, vs just doing it the way you always do in TS? When you see a yaml that resembles a list of ”steps”, it’s not declarative anymore, it’s a crippled imperative language in disguise.