Network Automation Trends

Piggy backing off another post about automation today, what do the engineers of this sub think is the future of network automation?

Do you see the industry continuously using ansible playbooks with SSH transport? Are we tranisitioning to mostly REST APIs? Or some other model that most dont even know about?

I'd like to keep the discussion it to mostly enterprises/SPs. Big FAANG companies using whitebox OSS will always be an outlier (I think)