It takes me 5 minutes to spin up a C#/V4 function webapp that is mapped via GH actions to a multi-stage Dev/Qa/Test/Prod deployment pipeline with certs, monitoring, backups, DR, compliance, etc all handled by default.
Can you get your LAMP stack to pass a PCI-DSS audit after 1 hour of work? I can make contractual guarantees that my stack is going to pass those audits before I log into my PC for the day.
Complexity is a weird thing. It is really hard to understand the whole picture when you only look at the technology through a narrow perspective like "what brand is my database engine".
I am sure you have seen other developers try to get this whole pipeline working on their dev box then.
Look, I have been doing things the way you are describing in the industry for 10 years now. Most of the time, the shop really really really does not need it. It is not difficult to set up a regular backup and a cert.
