Yes, I get this would help.

My problem is that ideally I would like to avoid assigning the metastore to workspace before databricks_metastore_data_access

My initial plan was to put unit catalog deployment to separate folder in the terraform structure and each workspace as well:

dev/

dev/uc

dev/ws_1

dev/ws_2

but I guess that I will need to re-think this. The order of the steps confused me a bit 🙂