I partially agree, but if you're going to be hosting your own server you should be considering the front end features, as well as making sure whoever is going to be maintaining the server it lives on won't want to pull their hair out.

I recently toyed around with InfluxDB which is a similar thing (written in go, no external dependencies) and it was pretty novel to have a 'self contained' binary like that.

I suspect it's especially helpful when dealing with docker images as well.