I agree. I wish we could just use EDN and Clojure,
but your DevOps guy is not writing Go or Clojure code.
They are also not doing code reviews to enforce security policies.
If you have DevOps guys who are also software developers, more power to you, but if I approach my DevOps team with:
Hey just code your scripts in this turing-complete languages, they will ask me "what's your username again?" BOFH-style ;)