That’s your takeaway?

It sounds like the only concern you have with code is its bugginess, which is short sights. This is unfortunately better documented code than stuff I’ve seen in production. Obviously no one should do this, but let’s not act like there’s no benefit

“haven’t written a single line of YAML” doesn’t sound relative

Names?

Is there a federated git out there yet?

Ever heard of a logarithm? If you haven’t, you just reinvented it.

Also, your math is wrong: log base 2 of 200,000 is ~18

The latter can be deleted and replaced with no issue