There are plenty of cases where lambda is a better fit than hosting a server. Just like there are plenty of cases where it's not an appropriate fit.
By flat out refusing to consider it, you become as much of a "drone" as the people you call out.
By flat out refusing to consider it, you become as much of a "drone" as the people you call out.
Such as?
If it’s regional latency then run a machine in the region.
I use Cloudflare Workers on hobby projects to provide server side work for things that have low volume, because the price is so low per user.
It's true that Lambdas will become pricier with consistent high volume usage, but for extremely variable usage or low usage, lambdas are a great option.
That's all. The rest goes in VMs.
When people go home, the dev Lambda cost instantly becomes zero.
You can't do that with (virtual) servers, the cost is exactly the same 24/7. In some cases it's a good thing, some not.
You can't also trivially handle Hug Of Death level load spikes.
Not to mention Lambda uptime vs everything else.