On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 19:23:00 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:

Netlink seems simple and reasonable to those who understand it.
It appears cumbersome and arcane to those who don't.

FWIW I put the work in progress code on GH hoping this will be more
engaging to user space devs who are a pretty important here:

https://github.com/kuba-moo/ynl

If anyone is interested in helping out, it'd be most welcome.