Had a "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" moment with Claude! In anticipation of supporting more complex configuration in a thing I told it to swap out a hand rolled config parser for a library, because, duh.
Claude: "The current implementation works well and is clear. While [other API] could theoretically handle this, it's designed for more complex scenarios.
Conclusion: I think the current implementation is the right approach."