[bastardoperator]

You might end up with the nightmare config they highlighted if the person writing the config has no semblance of DRY, but it's unlikely someone versed in CD systems isn't going to use techniques afforded to them for reducing boilerplate.

[tremon]

The irony is that many declarative systems have very poor support for symbols, templates, and code reusability in general, so declarative configurations carry more boilerplate than imperative configurations.