This seems like a take I don't hear often. I won't work on a weekend unless the service is on fire and I'm the only one who can save it (which means I've done a bad job).
I'm fine with Friday deployments as long as we have a good release pipeline with multiple stages of validation and slow rollout, but if I see that my team is having to regularly work weekends because we deploy Friday, I'll stop deploying and respect their time.
If you still get days off it can be nice to have them during most peoples work week so you can get errands done easily. As long as it's not consistently every weekend so you can still do weekend things with other people.
It can also be easier to get stuff done on the weekend when most other people/distractions aren't around.
I actually am really happy with how my current team works, where you will be on call during the weekend but only expected to respond to pages so usually you just need to be able to respond and not actually working.. if lots of things page it's even more incentive to improve your systems to not get bugged on the weekend. But even if nothing pages you we still take two days of our choice off the next week.