[magnawave]

The declarative functionality comes from K8s not helm. (Of course K8s has imperative tooling too but that’s not the point here).

The main reason folks dislike helm are 2 fold: 1) using string templating on a space formatted language is just messy and ugly for no good reason. If you don’t do anything terribly complicated it’s not too bad but quickly can be pretty fragile and unreadable. 2) golang(which I like generally) but the templating is messy and adds to the hard to read later problem

Personally find helm’s opportunity for code reuse to be restrictive and folks just end up cut and pasting a lot of declarations all over which is ... so terrible. But the first bullet above is pretty a fundamental design flaw.