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it took 5 years to get that useful for_each for modules though

so I'd imagine some people waited long enough that they moved on to better tools.

What better tools do you have in mind? Most of the people I know in the space have been moving _to_ Terraform, although CDK has improved enough over CF to be appealing for people who are all in on Amazon.

"better" is subjective. But Pulumi fixes a lot of the pain points of terraform for me.

Pulumi has been such a breath of fresh air. It is the only tool that actually feels like it encompasses "infrastructure as code".

Terraform CDK is a thing too, if you want to go beyond AWS.

for_each is an anti-pattern for reliable Terraform IMO. Not sure it was worth the wait and there isn't much out there that can compare with the simplicity of Terraform.

WAY more reliable than count which would do screwy things like rename a bunch of stuff and delete the last item if you removed an item from the middle of a list.

Complex architectures and reusable module encapsulation require a bit more complexity than HCL1 was capable of describing IMO (and apparently the O of most of the Internet). That doesn't necessarily make it less reliable.

Could I describe my infrastructure "reliably" just using raw resources with no loops? Sure but that sounds like a nightmare to both build and maintain.

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