Often, I've experienced state file issues as a result of some not-so-nice dependencies between AWS services. For example, Terraform deletes one thing and then t

Often, I've experienced state file issues as a result of some not-so-nice dependencies between AWS services. For example, Terraform deletes one thing and then turns around and tries to delete another thing, which fails because the first thing was deleted (it's been a while, so I don't have a detailed example, unfortunately). The result is the state file can no longer be reconciled without manual intervention. As you pointed out, though, it's not an issue with Terraform, and the above case can be solved by manually managing the dependency with lifecycle management. So, I agree that most cases are often inflicted by things outside of Terraform.