[fesc]

The same reason why most people stopped manually editing some random files via FTP to do deployments: to get a proper reproducible, automated and monitored production environment.

[notpachet]

I think there's a threshold below which this is just unnecessary infrastructure overhead, and I'd posit that most cron use cases fall below this threshold. If yours is above it, well and good.

[codedokode]

Cloud setups are not reproducible, because you cannot reproduce the same env locally or in the other cloud.