[WastingMyTime89]

You are missing the forest for the trees by confusing the end result with its implementation.

The idea between having a declarative configuration vs a traditional one is well understood in the context of a machine. In one case, you describe how you want the final machine to look like and let the system decides how to reach that states, in the other you yourself input how the state will be changed step by step to reach the final stage. Sure the declarative configuration really is a DSL and there is an interpreter somewhere turning it into a step by step list of actions but that’s invisible to the end user.

It’s not magic just abstracted. That’s the good old Wheeler aphorism: “ There is no problem in computer science that can't be solved using another level of indirection.”