General-purpose IaC earns its complexity where application engineers own infrastructure and benefit from typed components and unit tests. It disappoints when the pitch was freedom: the engine still builds a graph, still keeps state, and still forbids most of the clever runtime logic people expect to write.
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General-purpose IaC earns its complexity where application engineers own infrastructure and benefit from typed components and unit tests. It disappoints when the pitch was freedom: the engine still builds a graph, still keeps state, and still forbids most of the clever runtime logic people expect to write.
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