I’m not a fan of CDK as it seems to just introduce more cognitive load for developers and ops (as soon as something goes wrong / gets difficult), often long after the original authors have moved onto new shinier projects.

It’s yet another way to create snowflakes, but it’s not the worst, precisely because it uses CF behind the scenes.

If there were an org-wide (or “platform engineering”) strategy based on CDK, it would be different. The same goes for pretty much any infrastructure management tooling choice.