My experience with anything declarative is that features are gradually bolted on until it eventually just becomes imperative (and ugly). For example HCL. I bel

My experience with anything declarative is that features are gradually bolted on until it eventually just becomes imperative (and ugly). For example HCL. I believe declarative should stay purely declarative to describe data/documents in a static state (e.g. HTML, JSON) and an imperative “layer” can be used to generate or regenerate it, if needed.