1. Seamless serverless deployment

You can (and I did) deploy out of GitHub in a standard hosting server, but the sheer ease-of-use Netlify offers — and the integration with CI and CD tools right out of the box with incredibly easy configuration — means I don’t need to deal with all of this myself on the server side. When you have 5 or 6 tools running that get random updates every few months, that’s a huge decrease in mental overhead.