More like effectively a paid-for VPS which, depending on where you live, might cost about €3/mo.
Configuration is all on your end and, to be fair, you may still end up on a blocklist since that's just a way to bypass their VPN restriction and your IP will not show up to be a residential address.
I don't know if the critique is well deserved, considering that "we" probably don't "want people switching to"... a minecraft server management utility built in nodejs that's also barely mantained.
Yeah, I think it's clear that I really didn't get the reasoning behind "we want people switching to".
We're talking about a server side utility, and whoever is using that should either have a bit of knowledge about servers, or be versatile enough to learn even if just by getting their hands dirty - on that regard, one should use a virtualisation system so that they can freely manage their OS and package versions without breaking everything in the meantime.
To contribute to this discussion, I tried CubeCoders AMP and never looked back.
Installation was relatively easy as it's a one-liner installation script, but you have to purchase a license to set up a game server.
Mod management isn't the best, as there is no real utility other than the file manager, but I understand that's an almost impossible issue to solve because of how many configuration variants exist.
I had three instances running on three different systems at one point, even if just to host other game servers since it's not limited to MC.
Google translate does that, you can also use it on real-world text with your camera and the translation results look exactly like that