The case for Model-as-a-Service over self-managed inference

The operational overhead of self-hosting model inference (vLLM setup, networking, scaling) is significant for small teams. A growing category of "MaaS" platforms abstracts this, so i've been testing hpc-ai.com for this purpose & its been working well. Built on Colossal-AI (~41k GitHub stars), & external endpoints with minimal config. Curious what HN thinks: right abstraction, or too much control lost?