I'm with you with a minor adjustment. I'd call it not "feature development" but software development and programming languages. Two majors points:
* as a developer my free time should be spent on keeping up with my ecosystem (e.g. new JDK versions, Scala/Kotlin taking over Java, Akka-like modern libraries, the latest Flink features) and keeping an eye on possible alternatives (e.g. are golang generics good enough to make it competitive with Java?).
* once they standardize on a single DSL sign me up. I don't want to constantly waste my time on switching to CloudFormation, then to Terraform, then to Helm charts. Sometimes even moving to a different team in the same company requires it. Life is too short to be a full time YAML developer. Also, AWS CDK is the only option that at least resembles programming and it's apparently the least popular one.
* as a developer my free time should be spent on keeping up with my ecosystem (e.g. new JDK versions, Scala/Kotlin taking over Java, Akka-like modern libraries, the latest Flink features) and keeping an eye on possible alternatives (e.g. are golang generics good enough to make it competitive with Java?).
* once they standardize on a single DSL sign me up. I don't want to constantly waste my time on switching to CloudFormation, then to Terraform, then to Helm charts. Sometimes even moving to a different team in the same company requires it. Life is too short to be a full time YAML developer. Also, AWS CDK is the only option that at least resembles programming and it's apparently the least popular one.