Crossplane vs Terraform: drift fight just moves to a different layer
Teams considering Crossplane to escape Terraform/Pulumi drift discover it relocates the problem rather than removing it. The underlying issue is governance and out-of-band changes, and any controller-based approach adds new debugging surface for stuck reconciles.
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