While the "cloud" can look easier (and is indeed easier to start), there is quite big its own complexity around it - learning, tooling, specific problems, perfo

While the "cloud" can look easier (and is indeed easier to start), there is quite big its own complexity around it - learning, tooling, specific problems, performance limits, costs and so on. Also most of this knowledge is not quite reusable. But if you use the cloud carefully, selectively and avoid vendor lock-in as much as possible, you will be OK and it will be not hard to move to Hetzner (dedicated) incrementally later.