Having just spent the better part of the last year building a service that deploys to multiple cloud providers, this choice makes sense (or at the very least, I

Having just spent the better part of the last year building a service that deploys to multiple cloud providers, this choice makes sense (or at the very least, I can understand the root why). Beyond cost concerns, there's a staggering amount of complexity and low-quality UX/DX around this stuff that I don't see changing or improving any time soon (if ever). Once I got into the thick of it, I actually started to have the thought "what would it look like to just run co-located boxes like the old days or do this on prem?" The answer was of course "waaaay simpler." While I don't think we'll see an industry-wide shift back in this direction, I do see it happening on a non-trivial scale. Especially as things like economic instability and censorship wax and wane and wax in the coming decades.