I'm not sure about that. I thought cloud was primarily about consolidation of infrastructure, development, and operational headcount which does price some sort

I'm not sure about that. I thought cloud was primarily about consolidation of infrastructure, development, and operational headcount which does price some sort of OpEx reduction, but the primary goal being the reduction (elimination, in some cases) of CapEx from a pure infrastructure perspective. Every place I've been (or "visited") has seen OpEx increase but it's more quantifiable than work-hours which are typically tracked with project buckets in some workforce tracking application.