Tradeoffs are real. My example displays a few more knobs and yes, it’s more verbose.

I’d say my premise isn’t that “DSLs are bad”, but more along the lines of if a DSL isn’t what you’re looking for, I may have something for you. Particularly if you need your application to generate a view of a graph _during runtime_ so that it is your real-time source of truth.

I find that DSLs and “as code” solutions for several products have their own niche. Take for example Terraform vs Pulumi.