It’s loosely typed, you don’t know what parts are compatible or incompatible with one another, you can’t test without deploying to CI and seeing the results, the syntax sucks, the white space sucks, etc etc.

This is oft-cited but far overblown in practice much like the ado about whitespace in Python.

There are better things to spend time complaining about and it's not this.

I'm not "citing" anything, I'm saying that's my personal opinion formed from my experience with it. Am I not allowed to feel that way?

For exactly these reasons I was expecting for Pulumi to make a bigger splash, but apparently people just like pain.