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Nobody was saying Terraform is worse than configuring servers by hand--I certainly wasn't. Automation here is obviously right. If you're comparing Terraform to no automation at all, of course Terraform comes out ahead, but that's not saying much.

What isn't right is changing the language and policies constantly, and if your editing configs is so difficult that writing a parser to do it was easier, one begins to think that Terraform wasn't the right automation tool.