That’s a consequence of configuration languages not have proper type systems, and robust was to manipulate data.

Helm isn’t a configuration language, it’s a dressed up string templating system with ability to do kubectl apply.

> you can't guarantee your config is valid anyway if your config language can't see what class you're going to feed it to.

Obviously, but that’s hardly an insurmountable problem. We’ve had code gen and language introspection for decades.