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There's plenty of platforms where devs can do that. The idea that there should be One Monolithic Platform that lasts for 20 years is silly. Why only one? We have tons of options from modern hosts who have some kind of free plan available.

There's very little incentive for hosting companies to offer grandiose 20 year perfect free backend plans because hosting has been extremely commoditized and anyone hosting on top of AWS is just being squeezed aggressively. While you waste 25% of your resources fighting bad actors, spammers, CSAM, and everything else that comes with being The Place for Free Backends, your competitors are staying lighting focused on the features that your paying customers are leaving you for, spending only the minimum necessary on free options.

Frankly, if a dev can't find one of the ~dozen free top tier amazing backends available to newbie devs (many of which available through entirely web based IDEs that can launch any framework you want in moments), maybe they're not ready for this field, because a lot of it is in fact their ability to search and learn.