in general configuration at scale is something I'm passionate about simplifying . we recently finished a big research piece that focused on how we simplify the catalog (first priority) https://github.com/quantumblacklabs/kedro/issues/891, but the parameters will be the second priority. We have some changes to this namespacing thing coming in 0.18.0 (expected end of year) so I'll let the team mention them when they catch up with this thread