Comment by eeperson

I don't really think it is inconsistent. Sbt has two methods for configuring your projects. You can use a limited configuration file that has less boiler plate but also doesn't allow you to configure as much. The alternative is that you can use the full configuration that has more boilerplate but lets you configure everything. The reason I don't think this is inconsistent because the full configuration is a strict superset of of the limited configuration, both syntactically and semantically (with the exception that expressions need to be added to sequences instead of separated by blank lines).