You took that out of context, I said "software developers and sysadmins out of work, McDonalds-icizing software with proprietary, walled-garden service stacks."

You took that out of context, I said "software developers and sysadmins out of work, McDonalds-icizing software with proprietary, walled-garden service stacks." Implying that the result is lower-quality and disempowering of software businesses who aren't Amazon, Google, or Microsoft. So, pen and paper vs. the computer is not a fitting analogy. The PC vs. the mainframe is a better one.