I've always felt the same way about serverless, but never knew it was okay to talk about :P
I'm definitely repeating a lot of what you say but I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring to both sympathize and keep myself honest. My biggest pain points are as follows:
Copy pasta -- yes layers are a way of modularizing your code but each layer comes with a version bump and, let's be honest, it's much harder to develop a stable library than it is to simply import from a namespace; yes those namespaced utils may change a lot over time but I'm more okay with that than constantly redeploying a new version of my layers just because I keep writing buggy code; OTOH, maybe I personally just am not that very good at writing modular code and that no amount of process fixes anything and that really what's the cost of a version bump?
An AWS resource for everything! With every new lambda I have to add a metric, a metric filter, a log group, and probably at least 2 other things I want to get basic log lines in CloudWatch and then on top of that I have to remember what each resource I create was named! OTOH, building a centralized logging system is no walk in the park either and bespoke solutions are never really as ready-out-the-box as advertised
Local testing. I'm running into this now where my laptop is just too darn slow and I constantly forget what's a dev dependency and what's a prod dependency and whether I need to update my .env files to point to the stage or prod instance when I'm testing. I have no clue how this would work if it weren't a side project :P I've loved, loved, loved dedicated dev environments at my 9-5 but even there (OTOH) sometimes dev isn't quite up to par with prod and it does take time and a process (and money and servers!) to make sure that you have a decent dev environment to begin with
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I've always felt the same way about serverless, but never knew it was okay to talk about :P
I'm definitely repeating a lot of what you say but I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring to both sympathize and keep myself honest. My biggest pain points are as follows: