I greatly sympathize with the author's dislike of dealing with images. I'm still waiting for an inexpensive image hosting & manipulation service that I can push images to at massive scale, get N variation images back (from a source image) along with links for the images to then be placed within my service (along with some primitive image transformation options, nothing too fancy).

I absolutely hate dealing with hosting and managing images for services I build. I've yet to find anything remotely cost-practical that rides on top of eg AWS or the equivalent and just provides a simple thin layer service so I never have to store or manipulate images again. Take AWS, add a modest margin on top for the image management & manipulation layer. I've been waiting for someone to do this for 10-15 years at this point. Perhaps either there's no great business there (not enough potential customers interested in having image hosting managed away), or everybody else hates dealing with image hosting too.

Companies like Cloudinary offer such services, and their prices are obscene (eg $100/month for 225gb of bandwidth and storage).

At some point I'm going to just have to build it myself, get into the image-hosting-as-a-service business because I hate image hosting so much.