At some point in every declarative language’s life, so many features get bolted on to make it useful that it loses its declarative nature, at which point you mi

At some point in every declarative language’s life, so many features get bolted on to make it useful that it loses its declarative nature, at which point you might as well just use a more standard imperative language. In this case, just plain JS. The same thing happened to HCL.