The reason I use a VPS is to not use hosted anything, personally. So I guess whether that makes it a better product or not is highly personal.
Speaking for myself, I used $5 DO droplets for quite a while when learning but as soon as I switched to real projects and realized how quickly the price ramped up, I moved to Hetzner and the simplicity of their interface was a breath of fresh air. I saved a ton of time after switching. So to me, Hetzner has the superior product.
For the most part I agree but poor performance on network block storage is very limiting. Also there is no object store service available in Ashburn, its only in EU. My point is more that DO has a complete modern cloud platform, and Hetzner doesn't quite.