> This sounds a lot more like “I resented learning something new” than anything about HCL, or possibly confusing learning HCL simultaneously with something comp

> This sounds a lot more like “I resented learning something new” than anything about HCL, or possibly confusing learning HCL simultaneously with something complex as a problem with the config language rather than the problem domain being configured. What would you expect to be hearing different if HCL really was just an objectively bad language design?