Why I Moved from Terraform to a Stateless IaC Platform and What I Learned

I was a Terraform believer. I had written hundreds of .tf files. I had debugged state corruption at 2 AM. I had carefully designed remote backends in S3 with DynamoDB locking so my team wouldn't step on each other. I had given internal talks about Terraform best practices. If you had asked me two years ago whether I'd ever move away from it, I would have laughed. And then I started using MechCloud — a stateless Infrastructure-as-Code platform that treats live cloud APIs as the source of truth in