You're probably going to be downvoted to oblivion but I 100% agree with you. It seems like they tried to remove all the complexity, and just made new complexity.
Modern systems are complex generally. If it's not Kubernetes with YAML files, it's a bunch of servers in VMware which is own ball of wax followed by extensive Ansible/Puppet/Chef setup and SREs who keeping entire architecture in their head since they don't have time to write it down.
Obviously, there is exact opposite with stuff like fly.io but they can be extremely constraining.
Yeah, I really liked Heroku and I used it for so many years, but it also killed itself kinda. It could never reduce prices as all machines "was the same" and thus a reduction in price meant lose of revenue and now they're just super expensive comparably.
Now I just dump Caddyserver and install things bare metals servers. I avoid all dependencies like the plague
You will be happy to learn that it was not in fact downvoted at all. I think this may be the first time I've expressed this sentiment to (mostly) positive feedback and I'm pretty sure it's because it was explained properly this time. That is I think a good thing - the downvotes that came before gave me the impulse to improve, and I was rewarded when I did.
