[belmont_sup]

At this point, if it’s painful enough, why isn’t compiling-to-yml tools more popular?

Example: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-kubernetes

Haven’t used dhall myself but I’d definitely prefer a DSL on top of yaml.

[vbezhenar]

I use plain yamls and kustomize. It works for me. Not ideal, but definitely not on the level to replace it with the whole another language.

Yamls do have a scheme, editors can autocomplete it.

I've heard that helm is painful. Never used it.