I think there's a definite itch to scratch with this kind of stuff and you can see hobbyists already tinkering on the edges with things like home assistant and

I think there's a definite itch to scratch with this kind of stuff and you can see hobbyists already tinkering on the edges with things like home assistant and the homelabs community. As much as there are market drivers to make the cloud attractive to businesses and legitimate reasons why cloud solutions are better than alternatives there is a real desire in a growing number of people to have a solution that they can tinker with but that also has a polished UI so they don't have to tinker with it when they don't want to.