Well kustomize is IMO where using YAML creates the biggest pain. The patches thing is basically unreadable after you add more than 2-3 of it. I understand that

Well kustomize is IMO where using YAML creates the biggest pain. The patches thing is basically unreadable after you add more than 2-3 of it. I understand that you can also delete nodes, which is pretty powerful, but I really long for the "deep merge" Puppet days.