The options for spinning up CRUD apps (ie, 95% of projects) are still quite miserable.
https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app hosted on Vercel + Planetscale / Railway DB is very easy, I would be surprised if you were miserable doing that.
Mostly that solves setting up Auth and Prisma SQL ORM to your DB, but Next.js App directory with the Prisma setup (2 files / 50 LOC) done is even smoother.