So long as Software Engineer timing is not respected or tracked (compared to other engineering disciplines), in times of economic downturns, it will always be p

So long as Software Engineer timing is not respected or tracked (compared to other engineering disciplines), in times of economic downturns, it will always be popular to shit on cloud. People stop caring about the elasticity, about the operationial overhead to their people, additional 9's of availability, even about feature delivery velocity. Tech companies turn into accountants looking at X $/Month in the cloud vs Y $/month from "buying a couple of servers". Then you have "luminaries" like DHH and Elon blogging about how much leaner and better their services are as a result (never mind that twitter is now a buggy mess where everything is eventually consistent and breaks half the time)