The idea that one would install node + npm + some linter + linter configs + some method of automatically running the linter against the config before sending it to the thing being configured seems pretty insane and unnecessary to me. At the end of the day, it can suck, but being able to look at a config on a running system with inline comments makes debugging infra problems much easier. What the heck was wrong with # comments and the types of configs Apache et al. Have been using for decades?
Nothing, but then you get to write your own parser for whatever bespoke configuration DSL you want to implement. Some people would rather focus on other aspects of functionality.
