This article doesn't really lay out what - from a customer perspective - would class heroku as a sinking ship? The DevEx is still great, the alternatives are either borderline ridiculous (K8S is a laughably complex beast in comparison), or not fully cooked yet (fly.io, render etc.) I know that it's expensive, but it's nowhere near the price of having an engineer manage cloud infrastructure full-time.

I would love Heroku to have more reasonably priced compute. I'm desperately hoping that genuine competition in this space will pressure Heroku into sorting this. But the frequent refrain recently that Heroku just doesn't match with my experience in recent years. When the alternative PaaS solutions offer a comparable postgres service, then we'll have a genuine competitor. Until then, I'm not sure I really grok the level of disdain for it that's been on HN recently.