To be fair, that also happens a lot in Terraform. I'm taking over work at my org where people have wrapped Terraform in 2-3 different tools and templating engin

To be fair, that also happens a lot in Terraform. I'm taking over work at my org where people have wrapped Terraform in 2-3 different tools and templating engines. And then you have to work out how to robustly store and back up your TF states because piecing it back together if you lose your state, or someone else corrupts it, can be just as bad as the worst CF issues. Overall, I think Terraform is better if you're deploying a lot of inter-connected resources, but Cloudformation makes a lot of things "just work" in ways that Terraform doesn't. I think of it like ECS vs. EKS/Your Own Kube Whatever. ECS is full of gotchas and limitations, but if you play along with it you get a lot of things "for free".