Terraform CDK is just a layer on top of terraform to avoid writing HCL/JSON.

It's also deprecated by Hashicorp now.

CDK on AWS itself uses CFN, which is a dog's breakfast and has no visibility on what's happening under the covers.

Just write HCL (or JSON, JSONNET etc) in the first place.

I thought that was deprecated?

Am I the only person that despises CDK? Why would I use a cloud specific language instead of something like opentofu?