> So it doesn't get changed or improved, and it can never be replaced. It is the incumbent that blocks progress. A technological quagmire we can't extricate ourselves from.

This describes almost every tool in my toolchain that's over a decade old, this is just what happens. If you want to kill terraform and replace it with something better the usual bar is that it must be 10x better. If that's something you think you could do I'd be (genuinely) excited to see it :)