Because that will bite you in the ass. Someday the person who knows how to ssh in to fix stuff will be on vacation, or at another job. Or someday you'll decide

Because that will bite you in the ass. Someday the person who knows how to ssh in to fix stuff will be on vacation, or at another job. Or someday you'll decide you would really like to put the service in an autoscale group and now you have to sort out a bunch of tribal knowledge into a real deployment.