> I'd estimate each line of terraform to be an order of magnitude more risk/maintenance/faff than each line of Python.

ehhhhhhhh, i don’t know about that. different strokes and all of that, but TF describing infrequently changing resources requires next to no maintenance. i’m not sure i under what they mean by “risk” in this context though.

if you don’t know $technology well then any thing you do with it is likely to be worse/riskier than using the thing that you do know.

> The need for expertise in anything beyond Python + Postgres.

this should be the first point because it explains 99% of the motivation for all of this.