You're still thinking "good enough". I'm advocating for the "we can do so much better" attitude

The current popular config choices cause a lot of extra work, bugs, and effort. Is improving the status quo not a worthy goal anymore? Are we at a point in history throwing our hands up and saying meh, I deal with this... is basically where people are today? (I'm somewhat a believer of this based on anecdata and vibes)

The uncomfortable reality is that config formats don’t win by being best. They win by being:

1. already installed everywhere,

2. easy to parse in every language,

3. supported by editors/linters/CI tools,

4. stable enough that vendors bet on them.