Could I connect my front-end directly to Atlas?

it is very sad… is their another solution? mongodb official points us to use third party services like Hasura at a fee higher then mongodb atlas it self… the situation for many is dire; and there does not seem to be any official answer/solution… the propert thing to do would have been to deprecate one solution but offer a better native alternate (without outsourcing the problem)

… i am worried for the trajectory of new developers on mongodb going forward.

given that this is the community board, what is the advice from supporters?