[matthewtse]

It's really sad to me that Hashicorp never found a monetization model that worked.

100% of the companies I worked for over the last 6 years all used Terraform, there really wasn't anything else out there, and though there were complaints, it generally worked.

It really provided a lot of value to us, and we definitely would have been willing to pay.

Though every time we asked, we wanted commitment to update the AWS/GCP providers in a timely fashion for new features, and they would never commit and tried to shove some hosted terraform service down our throats, which we would never agree to anyway due to IP/security concerns.

[matthewtse]

Perhaps an open source fork of Terraform, where the cloud providers themselves maintain the provider repos, is the correct end-state. AWS started doing that in the last few years, assigning engineering resources to the open source TF provider repos.

That way, the profit beneficiaries bear the brunt of the development/maintenance costs.