Your entire last sentence, except the higher price bit, is just completely utterly false on its face. Serverless is magically simple - and that is DX, magicall

Your entire last sentence, except the higher price bit, is just completely utterly false on its face. Serverless is magically simple - and that is DX, magically simple and easy to reason about. Vendor lockin?? Wat? Again utterly wrong and false. The whole point is you are running your code, you define the function bodies, they just get deployed to different serverless hosting services and it is insanely simplifying. Switching from AWS to Netlify to Vercel is not harder than switching under any other approach. About cost, even though that isn't "completely utterly false" it is misleading. If you are a startup and want to move as fast as possible without incurring tons of tech debt, and don't yet have millions of daily users, you should use serverless functions because the total cost will be relatively small (relative to the insanely high cost of good devs that is -- always optimize for DX and velocity until you actually have scale). If you ever get to the point where serverless is costing you real $$, then refactor then - you've incurred almost no tech debt by waiting and being very very fast prior to that may just be the reason you got to that scale at all. Go ahead and build a serverless app utilizing a framework that is well aligned with that approach (may I recommend Remix?) and I bet you'll change your tune. My gut tells me you have no firsthand experience because your points are absolutely off base.