diff --git a/tron/config/schema.py b/tron/config/schema.py
index 2223009f3..bfb608635 100644
--- a/tron/config/schema.py
+++ b/tron/config/schema.py
@@ -218,8 +218,11 @@ def _asdict(self) -> dict:
         d = super()._asdict().copy()
         items = d.get("items", [])
         if items is not None and items:
-            # let's not assume items is an array. Because it can also be a tuple as we've seen in DAR-2044.
-            # Since the source of tuple is not know, let's fix the single culprit of this array assumption.
+            # the config parsing code appears to be turning arrays into tuples - however, updating the 
+            # code we think is at fault breaks a non-trivial amount of tests. in the interest of time, we're
+            # just casting to a list here, but we should eventually circle back here
+            # and either ensure that we always get a list from the config parse code OR document that we're 
+            # expecting Tron's config parsing code to return immutable data if this is behavior we want to depend on.
             d["items"] = list(d["items"])
             for i, item in enumerate(items):
                 if isinstance(item, ConfigSecretVolumeItem):