You can continue to pay only for what you use and handle super bursty workloads. But there is no free solution to cold-start if you don't see the future. People

You can continue to pay only for what you use and handle super bursty workloads. But there is no free solution to cold-start if you don't see the future. People needing consistent latency were already doing something similar to keep the containers alive or they just avoided to use Lambda. So I think it's a step forward.