Agreed, but this matters little if you can't hire people to manage your on-prem infra. 25 years ago everyone had a sysadmin and a DBA, now they are outnumbered

Agreed, but this matters little if you can't hire people to manage your on-prem infra. 25 years ago everyone had a sysadmin and a DBA, now they are outnumbered by "devops engineers" who just know AWS and K8s.