Well, I'd say they won't fully be abstracted away because devs will still have to pay for scalable systems (hw + sw) with dollars. Granted, they won't have to

Well, I'd say they won't fully be abstracted away because devs will still have to pay for scalable systems (hw + sw) with dollars. Granted, they won't have to think about designing a solution, but they still won't have the computational power which can be afforded by larger companies (and cloud computing is ridiculously expensive), unless they have a lot of money .