You could go simpler than Render, and some folks do--but you go simpler at the cost of drastically reducing the value of a thing for whole categories of non-toy

You could go simpler than Render, and some folks do--but you go simpler at the cost of drastically reducing the value of a thing for whole categories of non-toy projects. For example, if you want to host a static thing there are a lot of pretty easy options, but the second you need something as foreign to the "JAMstack ideal" as "a datastore" like "for a blog with comments" now you're in multiple control panels and you're shuttling secrets around and you're confronted with paying multiple companies just to launch a blog and the whole thing physically hurts. Some mild complexity in deploy (and it is mild, a render.yaml file in your repo's super easy) comes from having the options to actually do things, I think.