The new hcloud is actually fairly impressive. They are considering their go client and they terraform provider as an integral part of their product and had them out on day 1. And it looks like they are taking a pretty fast incremental approach based on customer feedback, with new features every couple of months.

Sure, we can go on how the big cloud providers have all of this and it's small steps, but it's pretty exciting to see a german hoster go into this direction.

They haven't done this in years (source: ordered a virtual server in 2015), and Hetzner Cloud (introduced in 2018) has immediate provisioning and hourly billing.

Nope.