Of course nothing is inevitable. Things never go back to the old way, but things do revert. Just look at some of the replies here and you'll see comments such a

Of course nothing is inevitable. Things never go back to the old way, but things do revert. Just look at some of the replies here and you'll see comments such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32319989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32319989 and others. Is decentralization an inevitability? No. But as I said above, the more that cloud companies do these sorts of customer-adverse actions, the more we'll see this movement to decentralization.