I used to be in the same camp, but instead would use the aws CLI for automation. I wasn't happy with how far behind many features in Terraform was at the time.

I used to be in the same camp, but instead would use the aws CLI for automation. I wasn't happy with how far behind many features in Terraform was at the time. However, since then I gave Terraform another shot and dang am I glad that I did. It is fast, easy for me to get started with. I would much rather waste effort and time on Terraform which is cloud agnostic than spend a bunch of time learning something specific to AWS