That point comes way further along, assuming you're talking about bare metal and not simply cloud instances. For my workloads, serverless functions would end u

That point comes way further along, assuming you're talking about bare metal and not simply cloud instances. For my workloads, serverless functions would end up costing 4-5x more than operating the infrastructure myself. Given that my infrastructure costs exceed the salary of some number of developers, that's a very real difference. Probably makes a lot of sense for early-stage, though.