In my opinion this beats the purpose of serverless. Call me a shitty engineer, a hacky dev, I see purpose of serverless to be quick iterations, get your idea out as fast as you can, develop in production mode. The way people did in Google app engine days. I am not sure why people realise it lot of ways the whole serverless infra from a business value standpoint is very similar to Google app engine, which when an orgs growth out of tries to get out of. Building a serious CI/CD or dev stack is waste of precious resource that startups or mid market should not invest.
The interesting thing is that it lets you develop against your real infrastructure. This speeds up your iteration cycle drastically when compared to the other serverless tools.
But I do feel your pain, building a CI/CD for serverless is quite annoying and is a big waste of time for startups. I would not recommend it.
And quite frankly serverless as an ecosystem needs to be improved before it can compete with app engine, when it comes to developer experience. We care a great deal about it and that's what we are working on.
