I find it easier to read Terraform over CloudFormation. I also find it easier to write. Anecdotally: non-devops developers find it easier to edit Terraform tha

I find it easier to read Terraform over CloudFormation. I also find it easier to write. Anecdotally: non-devops developers find it easier to edit Terraform than CloudFormation. They understand the resource and data blocks much easier than YAML. Terraform bridges the gap between purely YAML CloudFormation and purely JavaScript API calls. (JavaScript used as an example there, it could be any language). Terraform makes tradeoffs to satisfy its problem domain and be easier to use than CloudFormation. Plus Terraform often gets features faster than CloudFormation because cf seems to lag behind the AWS API. I'd like to write some of my simpler Terraform stuff in AWS CDK, Pulumi, or something similar, to see if I can make use of more language features like inheritance or better decision logic. (currently I try to keep as much logic outside of Terraform as possible. It's supposed to be declarative and not have "real" coding language features shoved into it)