Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
slapd.conf is deprecated, and support for it will be removed in
a future release.
Back in 2013 Howard confirmed that 2.5 will still support static config
(slapd.conf). And we don't see 2.5 yet.
I would say "easy and more controllable" are not measurable,
nor are they relevant.
Personally I strongly prefer static configuration because it's so much
easier to control it with the usual idempotent config management
techniques (puppet, ansible, etc.) which you need for the rest of the
system anyway.
I'd even state that it's a strong plus of OpenLDAP compared to other
LDAP server implementations to still provide this configuration method.