The reason that you need to do things the ops way is because ops knows how to run applications in production. There's a reason the meme "worked in dev, ops problem now" exists. You need to meet all of the requirements of an app that's running in production from a technical, availability, security, and policy point-of-view. It's not easy and that's why this will never work.
Software is hard, it's just that a lot of developers used to cut their code, run it on their laptop, and let someone else worry about it. It's different these days (although not as much as I'd like).
We don't make you use these tools because we want to, we use these tools because we're required too. No one cared about ISO27001, SOC2, or PCIDSS compliance for your crappy PHP app you ran on your cpanel. They didn't care back then you were using md5 hashes to "secure" passwords. The world is fundamentally different to what it used to be 10-15 years ago, and the requirements from business are astronomically different.
Edit: and to people saying "oh you could just run it on a single server", no you can't because certifications like ISO27001 require certain levels of availability and DR. You're not going to be able to guarantee that with a single server running in a rack somewhere.