Common, almost ubiquitous in my circles, and often reliable are things I would say about it, painless is not. I was a bigger fan until using it daily focused on a project for a month on it more than anything else.

I feel this strongly enough I'm looking at AWS CDK and troposphere, likely to learn I suck at writing my own imperative style terraform and to be more thankful. Lol

I found the documentation and it’s special syntax a pain. Just give me json with json schemas defines somewhere so vscode can give me great code completion and I can templatize as necessary

Is there something that does this in the wild?