All of the things mentioned in the article seem more a result of bad IaC, instead of general IaC...

> Packages go out of date. Features are deprecated and stop working. Code syntax changes. Images are no longer available.

This is true for all code and we have tried and tested methods/principles for dealing with that.

> Someone’s user account got built in, and they don’t work here any more.

No comment needed.

> He was in the Prod directory — and starting nuking production.

Say it with me: Elevate Permissions