That's unfortunate. This went from killer product to meh.

EKS currently has some issues with EBS that make it a pain that Fargate VMs would make go away

Yeah, it makes it a non-starter for me.

AWS could really do more in the area of making it super easy to get a hybrid managed database.

I run a DB that AWS does not have managed support for, it would be great to have managed backups, managed patching, autoscaling, etc.

For me it's amazing how much more performant software can be when you can just serialize and load data from disk using something like recordio or leveldb.