It feels like, to me, that most of the comments in this thread that don't "get" serverless have never had to deal with things like maintaining the spaghetti mes

It feels like, to me, that most of the comments in this thread that don't "get" serverless have never had to deal with things like maintaining the spaghetti mess of CM(Chef/Puppet/Ansible) that invariably results from trying to manage a traditional infrastructure deployment of any size. Patching, dependencies, configuration drift, security audits/compliance... these are all non-trivial issues requiring non-trivial operations and engineering hours to solve. It's fine if Lambda is too complex an abstraction for hobby code or a node.js todo-list app, but that doesn't mean it doesn't solve the right problems in the right problem spaces.