100%. The hidden part here is "DigitalOcean-level of complexity" is actually "DigitalOcean-level of features."
The big cloud providers have a variety of offerings of different complexity. Using GCP as an example: want k8s with all it's flexibility and complexity? You have GKE. Want to still run containers, but abstract away all the cluster resource management? CloudRun. Abstract away the container itself? CloudFunctions. AWS has EKS, ElasticBeanstalk, etc.
I understand people get overwhelmed the first time they're dropped into the console of these cloud providers but really it just takes a bit of reading to figure out what you should/shouldn't care about. And the benefit of doing so is enormous.
The big cloud providers have a variety of offerings of different complexity. Using GCP as an example: want k8s with all it's flexibility and complexity? You have GKE. Want to still run containers, but abstract away all the cluster resource management? CloudRun. Abstract away the container itself? CloudFunctions. AWS has EKS, ElasticBeanstalk, etc.
I understand people get overwhelmed the first time they're dropped into the console of these cloud providers but really it just takes a bit of reading to figure out what you should/shouldn't care about. And the benefit of doing so is enormous.