Perhaps Puppet would have been the better analogy (i.e. `ensure => absent`).

While Terraform providers can be built to do a lot of implicit work, in practice they don't. In my experience, you still have to specify all the pieces.

The only place I can think of where auto-deletion came in handy was for infrastructure CI. However, that CI pipeline doesn't catch many critical issues, and it's very expensive to operate. So I can't say it's been a total win.