"every IaC tool provider thought static configs like YAML would suffice as a human interface, but as they gradually realized the need for more dynamism, Terraform and others would bolt on one dynamic feature after another until they had a slow, unfamiliar, and counterintuitive programming language"

I constantly see soo many people step on the same rake, it's incredible. Tools like Tilt let you use python, it's a much more sensible approach.