Great response. I'm going to focus on one part of it for now. "I'd argue your software stack fundamentally relies on the environment it lives within and that

Great response. I'm going to focus on one part of it for now. "I'd argue your software stack fundamentally relies on the environment it lives within and that ceding control poses a non-zero risk" This is factually correct, but more nuanced than "just build it in house". Many large orgs externalise this risk by relying on AWS / Azure / Google. Nobody ever got fired for picking IBM is more relevant now than ever, and it is because the largest companjes on the planet have invested huge amounts of time and money solving these problems. I think you misunderstood me at some point, because nowhere did I advocate that everything should be a lambda. Or that everything should be in the cloud. The point I am making is that a lot of people I speak to are afraid of complexity and lock in, when they should be afraid of never being able to grow past what they are comfortable with. To your point about this becoming a trade... Brace yourself, I would wager most development positions will be obsolete in 10-20 years as AI assisted infrastructure and development hits full stride. Especially dev ops and front end.