This is misguided. Think about, eg. Ceph. From the side of the user, it gives user the storage, from the side of Ceph admin, it's an application. Now, imagin

This is misguided. Think about, eg. Ceph. From the side of the user, it gives user the storage, from the side of Ceph admin, it's an application. Now, imagine Ceph is used in Kubernetes to create PVC. Now, Kubernetes is your storage provider... and so on.