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I'd rather say it's worrying how millenials+ raised in post-standard cloud times are in denial of just how much they dropped the ball and are being brainwashed to believe the cloud progress narrative where there is only centralization and monopolization. Self-delusion to stay relevant in the job market.
I don't think you're fair here. There definitely are some that blindly believe the hype, but I met many who clearly see through the bullshit. Mostly, it boils down to the crucial distinction: are you building the project for someone else or for yourself? If for someone else, of course you want to maximize your revenue, and here the complexity of AWS &co. is an advantage. However, if you're building something for your…
It's only sheer force of keeping servers internal that we've had the expertise and knowhow to host our platform ourselves. Now that we're the size that we are, the platform is crazily reliant on hosting it ourselves for administration and liability, so we'd need to have migrated anyway.