I'm not a devops guy but I had to manage our Ansible deployment at one of my first jobs and always despised it. Scripts that would work locally would often not work on the Ansible deployment, and it was hard to debug. The other engineer (don't think he had experience with it either prior to the job) also felt the same way.

I was more of a junior dev at the time so maybe I was an idiot, but I don't miss it at all. In theory I agree with what you're saying, but deploying a Dockerfile to something like Google Cloud Run is just a hell of a lot easier. Yea I'm paying more than what I would be managing my own VPS, but I think this is more than offset by the dev hours saved.