Comment by MoreQARespect

Gherkin was always a pretty bad format that made it difficult to write terse, clear spectests. Inevitably the people who used it made horribly repetitive or horribly vague gherkin files that were equally bad for BDD and testing.

This is an artefact of the language which the creators are in total denial about.

There are better languages for writing executable user stories but none very popular.