The other thing that's going completely over people's heads here is that I made this repo with the intent of helping other people who know less than me. I know I can figure out all the deployment bullshit, but I mentor folks who can't, and also don't have much money, and yet still need to deploy their portfolio projects to the Internet in order to find jobs. I was trying to find a balance of ease-of-maintenance vs monetary cost. If there's an even simpler solution with an even lower cost, that a random bootcamp grad could maintain, I'd adopt it in my template in a heartbeat.
If any of these people claiming it's easy want to work with me on a reboot of the "deploy a web site easy and cheap" template, I'd absolutely collaborate with them on it. I think it's important to democratize all the cheap computing power lying around these days.