I’m less positive about GitOps. GitOps is a lie. I’ve never seen software that actually manages to adhere to the ‘repo is the state’ principle. Inevitably you push something, it doesn’t work, now you have to do something out of band or revert to get it working again. Sometimes you revert and it’s still not fixed… Looking at you Argo CD.
A gitops repo can never be the reflection of the system's actual state. It's a desired state your humans want the system to reach eventually, sometimes defined very loosely. This is the idea since Weaveworks invented the term years ago. Unfortunately I admit it's not very intuitive, especially to engineers who are not super familiar with declarative systems.