Totally, but it gives small companies room to breath. Much easier to spend a few hundred bucks/month on a communication tool / management software / aws vm, etc

Totally, but it gives small companies room to breath. Much easier to spend a few hundred bucks/month on a communication tool / management software / aws vm, etc. than pay the entry fee to a high cost self hosted service that might not even make sense in a few months. Problem is that most companies consider IT (and tooling) a cost , not an asset (that needs to be taken care of, tended and re-evaluated every once in a while), then suddenly you're stuck with a midsized frankenstein blob of services that takes half your budget but is so damn complicated to untangle that it's cheaper to eat the cost. Middle management hell in one paragraph.