[pyrolistical]

This is mainly a complaint about over abstraction and intrinsic complexity.

Tools like terraform offer simple modules to make your devops life easy.

But simple looking modules abstract a complex thing by hiding details. Details which are critical once your infrastructure reaches a critical complexity threshold.

At this point the tool is a burden. It is actively getting in your way to understand and get at the the actual infrastructure you are maintaining.

This is why imo alternative like CDK got popular. It doesn’t try to over abstract for you. It just gives you an api you write custom code over. The complexity of your code goes up with the intrinsic complex of the infrastructure.