I see it slightly differently. For most of the history of our industry, companies were penny-wise but pound-foolish. And I don't mean non technical leadership h

I see it slightly differently. For most of the history of our industry, companies were penny-wise but pound-foolish. And I don't mean non technical leadership here, I include the developers themselves. (I'll spend 2 weeks to automate a tasks that takes 10 minutes to do manually once a week) Everyone is waking up to the "total cost" of software development. Market forces are forcing people to realize that developer time is the most valuable commodity there is. Companies don't go to the cloud because they have silicon valley money to burn. They go to the cloud because every minute of their developer time that is not spent on development operations and maintainance of code that a cloud provider offers instead, is a minute they can spend on the core UNIQUE business proposition of the company. You can bemoan the skills lost in our industry, but that always happened at every layer of abstraction in every technical industry.