people who use aws native provider (cloud control) extensively. how was your experience? on one hand, having resources that map 1:1 to aws api/cloudformation and have feature support day 1 is great on another hand, every so often I stumble upon cloud control specific issues that make me regret using it in the first place

We do not recommend using it as your first choice. It's ok as a backup in case a resource does not exist in the AWS provider.