I miss the days of bare-metal servers.

The cloud providers overcomplicate everything. My tinfoil hat says that this is a form of vendor lock-on, with a large exit barrier of vendor-specific knowledge required to use their tooling.

It used to be a single dev could spin up a web server, write some HTML + JS, and reach the world.
Now it takes a team of a dozen people to manage a spiderweb that the cloud providers have convinced us is more efficient, just to serve something drenched in layers of JS framework and abstraction.

"Haskell Curry" has the same energy as "Sans Undertale"

(I'm aware that Haskell the language and Currying were named after him X3)