Do a lot of people really use the UI of any of the cloud services? Most people want managed infra, which means at least cli scripts if not terraform.

Not arguing the Azure UI is amazing, but it’s low on my list of concerns personally for cloud services.

Yes. Most of our infra is setup using the Azure portal. MS customer satisfaction engineers constantly recommend we set up things using the portal.

AZ CLI is also terrible for interacting with Azure.

UI for r&d, terraform for long term ops