As a "devops engineer" cough sysadmin cough, configuration management is still a freaking nightmare.

I write too much YAML, I do not know why everyone all at once decided they were done building abstractions and instead wanted to write a ton of boilerplate.

I use ansible currently for our SMALL business. I have thousands of lines of ansible to do relatively simple tasks. YAML is not a programming language, you have to repeat your self over and over again. If you get tired of doing that, you are out of luck. You are not writing in a programming language so you cannot develop an abstraction.

That being said, the main advantage of Ansible is that someone has already gone in and written all of the boilerplate code for provisioning various resources in my cloud provider. Unless OpsMop has this, I don't see the value-add.