Knowledge/training.
If you're shipping a brand new hardware arch, exposed as raw hardware, then you're on the hook for training everyone in the world and fixing all their weird edge case uses.
I.e. are you willing to invest in Intel/AMD/Nvidia-scale QA and support?
If you're exposing a PaaS (or even IaaS), then you have some levers you can tweak / mask behind the scenes, so only your team need be experts at low-level operations.
For a fast-paced company, the latter model makes a lot more sense, at least until hardware+software stabilizes.