When managed WP stops earning its markup

When managed WP stops earning its markup
Heard this week: the old 'managed or VPS' debate is back, and the line moved.
The tell isn't traffic anymore, it's how many plugins you fight. A source tells us the moment you need a custom Nginx rule, a non-standard PHP extension, or a cron the host won't allow, managed WP turns from a feature into a cage.
— Stay managed while your stack is boring and your team can't babysit a box at 3am
— Jump to a managed VPS (think GridPane, RunCloud over Hetzner) once you have one person who actually likes servers
Word is the agencies bleeding margin are the ones paying per-site managed pricing for sites that never needed it.
Watch this: the in-between tier is where the next pricing war lands.