A lot of people talk about serverless hosting like a new paradigm. But I will say the success of php was the huge amount of hosting providers where you send the files trough FTP, linked a domain and that's it, it's working.

No Linux terminal knowledge need it or worry about Nginx, SQL, or iptables configuration.

Yeah most of those cpanels hostings are bad for scale, but for a lot of new devs allowed them to deploy without having to be a sysadmin