> With cloud you can have less staff, but you need to pay more per headcount I would disagree in my experience this isn't the case at all through having less

> With cloud you can have less staff, but you need to pay more per headcount I would disagree in my experience this isn't the case at all through having less more experienced (and in turn well payed) personal is always a thing no matter weather you speak about on-prem or cloud and there really is no reason you need to do on-primise like the siloed "Traditional on-prem" as you describe. I would even say that especially for smaller companies they stopped doing on-prem that way even before the cloud became widely relevant. I mean it's just not feasible and there really isn't a fundamental reason why you have to silo yourself in that way just because you are on-prem.