That said, I think a playbook in HCL would be worlds better than the absolutely staggering amount of nonsense needed to quote Jinja2 out of yaml
I would also accept them just moving to the GitHub Actions style of ${{ or ${% which would for sure be less disruptive, and (AIUI) could be even opt-in by just promoting the `#jinja2:variable_start_string:'${{', variable_end_string:'}}'` up into playbook files, not just in .j2 files
One of my friends was in management at HashiCorp and what he told he was there were a series of bad internal promotions to product management and heads of development that tanked the company. At the same time there was a huge problem with leftist activist employees taking the company for hostage, not surprised they got scooped up for pennies on the dollar.
Turns out, nobody's quite figured out how to successfully charge for free shit, but it's moot when you can just burn venture capital for ten years until you get acquired and chopped for parts.
