[mlenz]

I totally agree, yaml is just messy when used for anything near complex. This is also why most automations in my home assistant setup are written in Python using AppDaemon. But I did not find anything good for dashboards, so I tried to reduce duplicate code as much as possible using makejinja.

[kkfx]

Personally I use org-mode with noweb, it simplify A LITTLE BIT, but not much more than a little and the push toward "integration" vs "in config" setup in HA, plus various syntax changes (last heavy the template syntax) is a nightmare to keep up...