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by yarosh 1413 days ago
A bit of ranting...

As for me

1, HashiCorp is forcing enterprise upsales whenever possible, even if it'll hurt Adoption Rates and overall Development Experience

2. Existing TF design issues are ignored, which is causing people some state management trouble irrelevant for TFE. So, yet again, why fix something that will end up in upsales ?

3. MPL requires for the PR's to be available in case someone will really fix something, but it's near impossible to contribute into Terraform with any major design improvements.

4. Existing Providers issues are neglected, and Accepting Working PR's takes around 3-4 weeks...

5. Some Providers (helm) are neglected in favour of the New Product Release (Waypoint provider) and there a Forced Obsolescence Factor alongside with Forced Adoption.

Deficient Relationship Marketing is the Key Factor in deciding who Will actually write Terraform (maybe not even HashiCorp), Who will Wrap Terraform and Into What (terragrunt, terraspace, pulumi, crossplane etc or some custom gitops SaaS), and Who will Support the target providers when Hashicorp solutions will magically turn into an abandonware due to upsales.