[mdaniel]

I'll do you one better: it's turning HCL into *an opaque golang intermediary*[1] of cloud API calls

It's like a game of telephone were every new participant in the chain is one more place to have "let me help you" turn into "what the hell was that?"

1 = and that's not even getting into the tire fire of the providers being either some Internet rando or an already overloaded team trying to have PRs make it through and out to release. I believe the the recent "we're not reviewing PRs anymore, exhausted" was just scoped to the hashicorp/terraform repo specifically, but it could very easily also apply to every code-gen shim that sits between TF and the underlying cloud SDK