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Well, I can't stand YAML, because I had to spend half a year extending a far too complex Ansible codebase. It felt like they made a Turing-complete language out of what's supposed to be declarative. And it feels like a good chunk of that was enabled by YAML offering an enormous amount of features itself.

So, yeah, I mostly just prefer TOML, because it's less easily turned into a Turing-complete language.

Daddy issues?

I suspect you're either reacting to the "Tom" (which is what the T in TOML stands for), making it sound like some "one guy's" project that never really took off...

...or the fact that it reminds you of the Windows INI file format. (TBH, git's config file also uses something that reminds me of Windows INI, and it took me a while to get over it)

From my point of view, most things related to software config is hierachical, meaning that a tree like structure is the most intuitive in understanding them. YAML is tree based, while TOML is section based. I find YAML much easier to keep track of. And I have great experience with Python, so the indentation is pretty straight forward for me.

But I'm not picking sides and defying the other. It's purely personal mind set related. Actually I do find some workflow very suited for TOML, like build systems, where each task is in its own section, shouting clear cut domain and dependency boundaries.

Fuck indent based notation in general.