[PedroArvela]

This is definitely a point.

Kubernetes resource definitions are verbose, but you can expect them to always be about that verbose and nothing else.

Ansible playbook instead really depend on the author, they can both be works of art or abominations.

[geerlingguy]

I imagine as Kubernetes becomes more popular there will be a lot more of these abominations present... similar thing has happened in popular programming languages—as they are more widely adopted, early adopters who were more focused on quality and correctness are fewer, and new devs who do 'all the wrong things' are much more prevalent.

It's more of an issue with your organization's (or in some cases, personal) process if you allow abysmal code to get checked into your codebase :) Even Ansible has easy to integrate linting and testing tools.