jsbroks

Working at a large scale I agree that using something like this doesn't make sense. But for indie hackers, small startups, or people wanting to deploy foss, they dont need all the complexities you are talking about. They have a app they want to deploy and generally, as cheap as possible.

Very good point, building up trust, especially in PaaS its very important

You can also checkout ctrlplane.dev which is free and open source.