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Consistency. Small discrepancies between environments.

Abstraction. Not assuming too much that you code yourself in a corner, but also not abstracting away so much that the code is difficult to work with.

Industry standard tools that have strongly opinionated built in paradigms (I would include terraform, ansible, etc.). I feel like the tools of future ought to be general purpose programming language frameworks just to avoid this, too many times I either can’t do something, or have to hack together something utterly convoluted, that could have easily been done if the tool was a framework and I could have just thrown in some Go or Python.