For homelab stuff Terraform/Terrafork will probably be OK for some time. The current TF version will get security updates until the end of the year and I expect others will keep it going after that.

In the medium term I'd expect incompatibilities and fragmentation in the ecosystem to crop up.

Sometimes I think Ansible could go down the same path if IBM/Red Hat decided to monetise it. All of these ecosystems run by a single company are fragile. Counter-examples are Linux and Kubernetes which both have many contributing companies with competing interests.

Why? this is a serious question, i work at a place where we use both and i would love to standardize on ansible rather then terraform even though i hate yaml and significant whitespaces.

Terraform especially kind of feels like something that's demand far to much hand wrangling every time i set up a new instance(as few of our instances is 100% identical in config), for what it's promising.