[spicyusername]

Sounds like a recipe for hard to read, bespoke, spaghetti to me.

One of the benefits to HCL is standardization. Every terraform module looks exactly the same as every other module.

[paulddraper]

Far from it, it's familiar, succinct, and well structured.

There's a reason Cloudformation added CDK, and Pulumni only uses mainstream languages.