I'll start by repeating that the serverless part of my comment was me extending the things that other people are predicting for the future. I'm not 100% I agree

I'll start by repeating that the serverless part of my comment was me extending the things that other people are predicting for the future. I'm not 100% I agree, but I'll continue their position: containers are only really better than VMs because they use fewer resources. They are not better than VMs in that you still have a whole software stack inside them that you have to care about. Anyone building their own containers should also be maintaining a whole pipeline for updating all of the software in the containers that isn't their application. Narrowing the unit of software deployment down to the application itself, removes a lot of that (or rather abstracts it to whomever is responsible for maintaining the serverless runtime containers you use).