99$ for 50,000 hours is a steal. You could barely rent a dedicated server for that amount of money, let alone the maintenance.
You can get a Ryzen 5/64G for like $40/month on providers like hetzner. While I get your point about maintenance, it's not right to say that dedicated servers are that expensive (you also can't compare the performance of 2vCPU/4G with a dedi but that's beside the point)