[re-thc]

> It is possible, so I just don't understand what the complaint is.

And it is also possible to write in assembly, will you?

> The complaint was that they had to use a third party or community one

And isn't that fair? People want support? Official support? Is that wrong? And yes community modules especially since they might not be from the same group lack consistency, documentation and often doesn't get updated as regularly. The magic is the vendor is the only 1 that can properly coordinate updates.

> as though those people are doing by some kind of magic unavailable to them

Then why are you using Terraform? The APIs behind Terraform are also available to you so you can use that directly. There's no magic unavailable to you either. And you go beyond not using those APIs and build your own servers and data centers too.

I don't get why Terraform is a fair abstraction you're defending yet you're arguing against people wanting a higher level of abstraction.

[OJFord]

I'm not arguing against higher abstraction, I'm not saying write assembly.

Modules are the same abstraction as L2/L3 constructs. In either case if you don't want to use someone else's (and you want one) you write your own. If you then haven't, it's not Terraform's or AWS CDK's fault.