[sanderjd]

Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks (and diff'rent use cases)...

For me, the panacea is to be able to easily do both. I want to be able to use an application as a library from a repl or script by "configuring" it via dataclasses. And I want to be able to run the same application from a cli in different configurations in different production environments by checking in sets of config files that I know are more constrained in what they can do than a generic python runtime.

There's no fundamental reason it is hard to expose both of these interfaces without repeating yourself a bunch!