Your argument seems to be AWS isn't prioritizing the things that you think are most important. I think thats fair. But that doesn't mean the products abandoned or not being updated.
Yup, today I was looking on some examples of AWS CloudFormation templates and I saw version 2010-09-09. Instantly, I thought the webpage I was reading must be old; so I opened the docs. In the docs, I see "The latest template format version is 2010-09-09 and is currently the only valid value."
Last version was 10 years ago and this service is one of the core AWS services, so it's definitively not abandoned.
That's just protocol versioning - it means they haven't made backwards-incompatible breaking changes to the template protocol, not that the features haven't been updated in 10 years.
