Unfortunately HCL is also an unnecessary learning curve for users. I still don’t have my head around a list versus a bunch of blocks with the same name, for example. I originally thought it was syntax sugar for a single mechanism, but I’ve had errors for trying to use one instead of the other before.
But I wanted to be a Terraform user. So an alternative interpretation is that, as designed, Terraform is slowing down adaptation of the known universe for Terraform users.
