If we push everything to the edge we might end up with an ecosystem where it's not affordable to run your own VM, and we'll be stuck building only on the techno

If we push everything to the edge we might end up with an ecosystem where it's not affordable to run your own VM, and we'll be stuck building only on the technologies offered by edge providers. Even if it's not literally the case, for the working dev it might end up being the practical reality if edge hosting ends up being the trendy default. The equivalent to "no one got fired for buying IBM" and now "no one got fired for choosing React" Cloud functions are cool, when you need them, and when you want them. But if they were the only option I would go do something else for a living. I am already imagining the day where some young developer comes to the bold new idea that we could write better software, if only we hosted our own runtimes! Much like frontend architecture broke new exciting ground when they recognized they could compile their pages on the server before sending them. Wow!