The serverless provider can go down just like the VM provider can go down, but the key difference is that it won't go down due to traffic bursts.
Auto-scaling helps, but it still takes awhile to spin up new VMs, and you'll have downtime in the meantime for sufficiently large bursts.
On lock-in, in my experience with any non-trivial infrastructure you end up tied to your provider anyway. You're still going to need IAM users and VPCs and subnets and provider-specific auto-scaling and all that jazz. Serverless lock-in is deeper, but either way switching is a big project.
Auto-scaling helps, but it still takes awhile to spin up new VMs, and you'll have downtime in the meantime for sufficiently large bursts.
On lock-in, in my experience with any non-trivial infrastructure you end up tied to your provider anyway. You're still going to need IAM users and VPCs and subnets and provider-specific auto-scaling and all that jazz. Serverless lock-in is deeper, but either way switching is a big project.