Found recently a cool article about the Golden Path. I found out that I'm actually developing a very similar approach for months already https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/designing-golden-paths

Thanks for sharing @Damian Keska

It seems building the golden path is the hard part. I referred to it as being willing to pick up a machete and hack a path through the jungle with the willingness to turn around, lose a few days and take a new path.