[taeric]

Disagreed from me. Though, I'm not sure how hard my disagreement truly is.

Discrete programs are superior in many ways, as you do not immediately incur maintenance costs to write them. More, they typically force you to have a discrete API that they work with, and then you can lean on that.

Yes, you can do all of this with modular programming techniques. Indeed, "unit tests" are easy to see as similar to what I'm advocating here. Such that I think my assertion is softer than many folks are probably seeing. If you are "scripting" something to add data to the system, it should emphatically not hit the database directly.

I don't know where this lands me on the infrastructure as code (IAS) debate. I'm sympathetic to the desire. I start to think of it as navel gazing when I see some of the very engineered testing practices some people take those to.