The cycle of tooling

Step 1: Look I've made this new great tool that uses a declarative language, you simply declare what you want your environment to look like and boom it will build it out. No more having to figure out a complicated logic flows that can fail or having code that dies on weird error cases, and you don't have to be a developer to use it.

Step 2: The tool isn't powerful or flexible enough and the declarative code is getting to cumbersome so we've introduced some basic templating and logic flow to this tool to make it more flexible and reduce bloat.

Step 3: The control flow isn't powerful enough to really meet our needs so we have moved it entirely to a full programming language.

Step 4: Go back to step 1.