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You forgot the part where the provider of your serverless charges you a multiple of what your idling server would cost you.
It’s basically slicing up a server and selling you some slices at an exaggerated premium.
You spend more on supervising the stuff running on the slices so they don’t bankrupt you when a peak happens than you would for maintaining a server.
But hey, it’s fashionable to be serverless so let’s all do it