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by gorkish 947 days ago
> What problem is Ubuntu trying to solve?

Guessing, but I think it probably has more to do with the various tools and frontends (GUI, cloud-init, etc.) designed to manage the configurations than it has to do with the capabilities of what the configuration system will support. I have been bitten by some of this too, but the various script hooks are still there, and I've been able to support everything else via those mechanisms.