[Ugohcet]

I also don't get these, but for another reason: why write a dotfiles-specific configuration management tool with templating, conditions and all of that when we already have proper SCMs like salt or ansible that perfectly scale down to a single user and a small number of configs, but are still orders of magnitude more powerful when you need it.

[throwaway894345]

I will do a lot of work to avoid having to touch ansible and friends. Fortunately, I don't have to do a lot of work because I spent 10 minutes writing a 50 line Go program a decade ago that has done everything I've needed it to do in the interim (IIRC the only change I made to it was supporting Go modules back in ~2015).