[fishnchips]

> why can we just simply not do something new along the way

Marcin here, one of the member of the OpenTF.

99% of the value of Terraform is its ecosystem - providers, modules, tutorials, courses etc., and millions of lines of battle-tested production code already written in that language. 1% of the value is in the tool itself, with the tool serving as the gatekeeper to all these riches. One of the things that I personally want to see is opening up the codebase to allow building new things on top of it, which then don't need to reinvent the wheel.

You dislike HCL? Fine, have something else give the tool an AST and we'll take it from here. You don't need/want to go through the CLI? Not a problem, embed some of these libraries directly in your app.