Do we need big tech? The only thing I need is a search engine. I prefer privately hosted web and mail servers. Before "the cloud", the economy worked just fine

Do we need big tech? The only thing I need is a search engine. I prefer privately hosted web and mail servers. Before "the cloud", the economy worked just fine and companies had enough money for in-house IT. By using the nextcloud example, the author of the article is asking the wrong question.