My quote is "everyone leaves Heroku eventually". Either you hit something that Heroku won't let you do (because of their tightly bound model) or you are burning

My quote is "everyone leaves Heroku eventually". Either you hit something that Heroku won't let you do (because of their tightly bound model) or you are burning tens of thousands a month on what would cost 20% on AWS/GKE, and you do it for cost savings (people are nontrivially expensive, of course)/ownership. Everyone leaves Heroku eventually. :D