Agreed on both counts - absolutely awful article, and self-hosting is not hard. You seemingly need a phd to do the most basic things on AWS
People argue self-hosting is insecure, then open up their AWS RDS instance to the whole world because they can't figure out their IAM settings.
Initially, the celebrated feature of python was that it allowed easy and fast development for newcomers. There was a joke a long the lines, "I learned python, it was a great weekend".
As much as I like python's type system (and wouldn't want to see them ever go way!), part of me wonders if moving into a world where hello-world can look like this, is a world where python is no longer the "lean in a weekend" language:
(obviously the example is silly, and I know this is a lot more than you need to do, hopefully you get my point though!)