There is a continuum between "I run servers in my basement" and "I pay mid 5 figures monthly to have autoscaled autofailover hotstandby 1s-interval backed up cluster across three AZs".
I use AWS, DO and Hetzner (bare metal) for (different) cases where each makes sense.
In the past few years, maintenance burden and uptime between AWS and Hetzner hosted stuff was comparable, with the cost being an order of magnitude less for Hetzner (as an added benefit, that machine is more beefy but I wasn't even comparing that).
> People on my time would rather be developing software than doing sys admin stuff.
I am not surprised software developers would prefer doing software development :-)
