I think the first point of your rant is that it’s a misonomer and that’s correct. There’s still a server there. “Serverless” means that you don’t think about or

I think the first point of your rant is that it’s a misonomer and that’s correct. There’s still a server there. “Serverless” means that you don’t think about or manage individual servers yourself and let your provider abstract it away from you. You mostly understand the trade offs. The advantages are reduced ops in the happy case and modeling your software in a way that is amenable to horizontal scaling. Providers make executing the horizontal scaling pretty easy for the typical case. The disadvantages are vendor lock in the inability to do real deep diving if you have a problem with the hosting stack rather than the service logic itself.