I've never understood the whole cloud hype. Am I the only one who uses a (bridging) VPN to provide me with LAN-level access to an office-server, running Samba

I've never understood the whole cloud hype. Am I the only one who uses a (bridging) VPN to provide me with LAN-level access to an office-server, running Samba and locally hosting the office documents? With Linux, OpenVPN and LibreOffice, my running costs are zero, and if you can install this yourself, so are your installation costs. Wasn't this the standard before the cloud hype began? Was it too expensive/complicated/no experts available for SMOs?