Yeah, I meant that Terraform is more rigid with respect to reusability than a general purpose language like Python. This isn't a controversial point; the controversy is whether that's a bug or a feature. I think it's a feature, and to the extent that Terraform is becoming increasingly flexible, I would say I'm vindicated in my position.

I think the person above is mostly pointing out about dynamic blocks , since that do allow abstracting blocks of config and also allow subtle differences