Declarative language can absolutely print out what it does know at the time. Which of course won’t be everything. But if I’m taking an input and morphing it at runtime like looping or just moving the information around in a data structure which terraform absolutely allows you to do, the runtime of terraform has all that information. I just can’t get it out.
Plus, there are many times I don’t want to have to use the REPL. Maybe I’m in CI or something. The fact that I cannot iterate over values of locals and variables easy to see what they are in say, some nested list or object, easily and just print out the values as I’m going along for the things terraform does know is just crappy design
