You've correctly characterized my sentiment. I also stated that you might not care about any of the other cloud products or extra bells and whistles. The funda

You've correctly characterized my sentiment. I also stated that you might not care about any of the other cloud products or extra bells and whistles. The fundamental building block (a cloud server) that Rackspace sells will be and is identical to a Slicehost slice, you can just ignore everything else and pay the lower (likely) rate. I can't deny that simplicity is gone from the equation given all the extra products/services, but the core Cloud Server is the same simple VPS you once knew and loved.