Sure I can buy that - but how much? In the last 4 years I've spent probably 60-80% of my time writing terraform for various companies and maybe 5% of that invo

Sure I can buy that - but how much? In the last 4 years I've spent probably 60-80% of my time writing terraform for various companies and maybe 5% of that involved a hashicorp product, and arguably, it would have been easier deploying it without terraform. Its main use case is to build cloud infrastructure, not interact with hashicorp products.