So far the best approach I have seen is that of @nathan1 - http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/suggestion-completely-virtual-router-based-on-two-physical-routers/100272/6 .
There, VRRP is only used to detect the failure of the active router.
As @wiseroute has pointed out, if you want the VRRP to work as designed, i.e. to only move the virtual gateways, and synchronize the configuration from the currently active router to the currently standby one, you need to somehow deal with the situation that part of the configuration is specific for each of the two, and there is a lot of limitations in RouterOS text processing.
So “orchestration” as in “using an external machine to modify the configuration” may indeed be a more plausible way, even if that “external machine” would be just a container running on one of the Mikrotiks.