Completely agree. Thanks for writing this up. Specifically because I've always thought this, but also don't value my opinion on the topic. I was first exposed to devops a few years ago, and as a result was learning docker, k8s, terraform, salt, &c. at the same time. (I hated it, and now I'm happy writing C++ again)

What I could never wrap my head around was why the heck the tools had to expose so much complexity. I want the description of my infrastructure to be a single, or set of text files, written preferably in JSON or YAML like everything else, and I want to run a command that behaves in the same way as GNU make.