In the era of the cloud, it’s also outdated. Cron jobs are simple only if you cut your teeth on Linux and can effectively administer a server. This is an inaccessible option for many modern devs who operate far up the stack.
So it’s no surprise that we have other choices for scheduling code in 2020:
AWS Lambda + CloudWatch Events
Google Cloud Scheduler
Airflow
Kubernetes CronJobs
ECS Tasks
etc.