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You're not the target audience. My son is 13 and has his own website, started to learn HTML when he was 11. All I did was tell him about Neocities (and allow him to sign up) and he figured out the rest.

This is very similar to how I started out almost thirty years ago. Static files, a complicated JavaScript navigation, maybe even entirely flash based! Not everyone needs a hyperscaler!

You said it yourself: you're already paying. Lots of people don't want to pay, so they use this for their hobby.

The majority of folks won't be setting up their own web-hosting, and this can fit them.

We have to remember that everything doesn't have to be for everyone to be valid or reasonable.