You are using very strong words to describe a very weak signal, and it comes out sounding like noise.

Self-respecting programmers make lots of good and bad decisions, and trying to exclude someone from that category because they went down a particular path is divisive and unproductive.

If you had said, "I don't see why one would opt to use a service rather than write a script for this very simple task," you might've gotten an interesting answer pointing out something you missed.

No self respecting programmer would throw away the chance to learn a valuable lesson to grandstand.

(Edit: Though I've totally made that mistake before.)

You write your little glue code, then you spin up a server to run it periodically (which costs money), then you're forever on the hook for patching, restarting, adding features, dealing with api changes, etc etc etc...

As opposed to "set up, forget about it, have a beer".