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> Wish we’d all agree to one templated configuration format.

I'm going to post the obligatory XKCD comic because your comment is exactly what this was created for: https://xkcd.com/927/

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Not really, the parent wasn’t suggesting developing a new standard, only settling on one.

if all the current ones haven't been good enough then I think its implied that a new one would be created.

Well I disagree, if nothing else for the fact that they never expressed that none was good enough, just frustration that there are too many (or more than one, really). Perhaps they’d be happy if everyone just settled on YAML or something.

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