Since this will be a discussion now, I spent some time to expand on my notes I made before writing the above comment. It turned into a longer document: Topics for my planned rant talk at CfgMgmtCamp 2026 (https://forum.ansible.com/t/44250/6) · GitHub
Edit: you can now also find this on the forum: CfgMgmtCamp 2026 discussion (0/12): Problems in the Ansible world and how to improve on them