[blackjack_]

What particular issues do you have with it? My company uses it at scale (dozens of different instances, hundreds of workers, thousands of pipelines) to support thousands of applications and we are reasonably happy with it. DSL is incredibly helpful at scale. IAC is incredibly helpful at scale. It requires a good amount of upkeep, but all things underpinning large amounts of infrastructure require a good amount of upkeep.

[verdverm]

We've minimized our usage of the DSL, there is no way for devs to debug it without pushing commits, and it means you have to implement much of your CI logic twice (once for local dev, once for ci system).

IMO, ci should be running the same commands humans would run (or could if it is production settings). Thus our Jenkins pipelines became a bunch of DSL boilerplate wrapped around make commands. The other nice thing about this is that it prepares you for easier migrations to a new ci system