I don't think we need to bring languages and frameworks into this. Some of them make things worse, others -- much better.

Furthermore, the microservices craze only made things worse regardless of PL / framework.

IMO we have an entire generation (maybe two) of devs who never self-hosted. That's the main audience of the article and of many of the comments here.

The rest of us who only scoffed at the cloud and microservices were just waiting the world to start coming back to its senses again.