[ajgrover]

I definitely agree that there’s less magic going on with a traditional style deployment, but I think you’re strawmanning Next a bit with this comment. Not everyone uses graphql, and a vanilla Next API route is similar in complexity to a vanilla node http server.

For a basic CRUD app, especially for a solo dev, the monitoring story on Vercel is sufficient and it’s hard to say that their single repo push to deploy setup is more complex than the traditional alternatives.