1. It's about imposing worst-case complexity on the 99% of people who will never benefit. 2. Some of that complexity only arises because of the dogfooding 3. No it doesn't get easier, because you still need to understand what those things actually do to know if they're right for your use case, and besides if you're driving everything from terraform then having a "quick button" is precisely useless.

We had an AWS rep try to sell us on an AI tool to help with predicting the IAM permissions that our infrastructure code needs. My response was, essentially, "why have you built a deterministic system so complicated that it needs an AI to configure correctly?" I have not had an answer.

That's all fine and good, but I still don't know how much trust the EBS team versus the ALB team.

And I don't think you do either.