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But the customer that needs that is arguably better off on Squarespace. Most modern point-and-click platforms let you build arbitrary forms with mail services.

Netlify wants developers to live and breathe microservices that they meter to developers. In order to get the benefits, you have to change DX, which the entire JAMstack community has been doing for a decade or so. The downside is now putting stuff on the web is often needlessly confusing and forces you to be dependent on a middle man.