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I'm torn, I don't think of Pis as traditional servers and have two dedicated servers on my network. AND I have a half dozen Pis that I use for hosting OctoPrint, DNS, SSH, IoT, Pi-Hole, etc... which are traditionally Server functions.

I tend to think of Pis in terms of single function appliances. They're obviously capable of more but they're so cheap you can just throw one at a single problem and forget about it.

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Yes! They're the computer equivalent of buying a water filter for your kitchen sink or a dimmer switch for your bedroom. No point in redoing the plumbing or rewiring the entire house but you can throw one tiny cheap appliance in there and solve a single discrete problem pretty quickly.

I have a couple at hand near my desk at all times and can just flash a MicroSD card and boot one up in a couple minutes. They're incredibly handy for prototyping things.

I needed to test out an Onvif setup, I was able to flash a Pi Zero W and have a functional Onvif camera in 20 minutes.

We got some windows blinds and I noticed they used Z-Wave remotes so I pulled out a Pi and setup an HA server running them on schedules with-in half an hour.

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