[ljm]

Not speaking for OP’s experience but I suppose that you might default to all this fancy serverless edge worker stuff if you learned how to code on their (usually generous) free-tier plans, or they were the only things you dealt with at work.

Meanwhile setting up a little VPS box would come more naturally if you learned in the era of the LAMP stack and got your hands dirty with Linux.

In fact I wonder if for some people that’s made worse by the tendency to split frontend and backend web development into completely separate disciplines when originally you did the whole thing.