[KRAKRISMOTT]

Because no engineer building application software wants to specify their infra down to the component level. Infra is awesome when it is Somebody Else's Problem. Docker compose was popular, Heroku was popular, Vercel is popular. Infra is good whenever there are reasonable defaults, good ergonomics, and requires no maintenance. Kubernetes is a DIY cloud solution. It's great if you are trying to build AWS/GCP/Azure, not so great if you want to deploy your app for the cheapest cost possible while not being constrained by the limitations of Vercel/Heroku.

The worst is clouds like fly.io that believe their value prop comes from stuff like "edge computing" while their main offering is half baked, under documented, and unreliable. People want better, cheaper managed infrastructure. Good managed infra should be small overhead on top of the raw compute cost. Nobody complains about LAMP PHP deployments because it was good value and offered what people wanted.

[noop_joe]

I'd love to connect with you and talk more about this! I'm working for a company building something that addresses the problems you describe [1], ditto for pricing model.

email is in my bio :-)

1. https://noop.dev