The YAML config, IAM permissions, generating requests and responses, it's all so painful to get anything done.
Admittedly I speak as a software engineer primarily building CRUD apps, where frameworks have had decades of development. I can see use cases for event-driven applications where serverless may make life easier. But for CRUD, currently no chance.
I do see its usefulness, but its not a one size fits all tool.
Ya, this is the majority of us.
https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py
You can build your software as a monolith and deploy it with one command to your own cloud or our cloud.
And gateway+lambda is a near perfect "dumb crud" app, though it is not without a startup cost.
If you need RDS for example you need the VPS.
It only looks good on the outside.
I find FaaS best when needing to automate something completely unrelated to what goes in to serving the customer. Stuff like bots to report CWV metrics from DataDog to a Slack channel.
But that means you're not starting with serverless, and it's your pivot from the original monolith.