I am of a similar mind... I will say the work that Cloudflare, Deno and a handful of others have done has been really interesting/compelling. I mean, if you don't like TS/JS, there's still WASM as an option. Similarly I think WASM target frameworks will become very interesting in terms of cloud scaling apps in the longer term.

IMO, I think considerations for general search is probably one of the biggest shortcomings of most cloud first solutions.