Nobody knew how to use the cloud when it first came out, and AWS and GCP are both fairly obtuse. IAM alone... Hell, for that matter, nobody knew how to set up

Nobody knew how to use the cloud when it first came out, and AWS and GCP are both fairly obtuse. IAM alone... Hell, for that matter, nobody knew how to set up a transcode server for live streaming 30 years ago - it's not some ancient art where we lost 50+ years of experience. I don't believe that people who can learn to operate cloud services can't learn how to rack servers and install software. Ten to fifteen years ago I was in companies where ten percent of the software team was managing the datacenter. Now ten percent is managing kubernetes and AWS and all that. I've seen the cloud be better for smaller shops since you no longer have to have that server management if you only have one or two people, but I haven't seen it "deskill" things so much as "differently skill" them in larger orgs.