-- "Serverless Business Unit at DigitalOcean" -- i see a lot of "enterprise lingo" around digital ocean these days - are they still the best "individual developer focused" provider? --
There are simpler, more specialized products, but I think DO strikes a really good balance. For example, I've hosted static sites on Cloudflare Pages, which is a solid product, but its also rather unconfigureable; I was running into issues with their built-in CI even using a static site generator which wasn't on their supported list.
I don't think that would have happened otherwise, and I'd be really surprised if Linode doesn't follow DO's price increases within a few months.
Not really saying this as a DigitalOcean evangelist or anything. It's just that business is business.