Shouldn't a simple back-end be easy enough to spin up such that this is not that attractive? For example, I use Web2py[1] which includes Fabric and bash script

Shouldn't a simple back-end be easy enough to spin up such that this is not that attractive? For example, I use Web2py[1] which includes Fabric and bash scripts to setup a server and deploy your apps. Then you get to work with non-proprietary Python, Postgres, etc. https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/master/fabfile.py https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/master/fabfile.py