No one is saying don't use these expensive services. My argument is that most applications don't need them and people do it anyway. It works well for a while and then suddenly you get an email saying your bill is going up 1000%.
If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Vercel type services are not necessarily the right answer in many cases just because it is easy to start with.
Most applications don't need more than them either. It's also easy enough to migrate off to self-hosted docker behind a load balancer if you need that as a stop-gap.
If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Vercel type services are not necessarily the right answer in many cases just because it is easy to start with.