When the money really starts drying up it will be on the table again, for now it's "someone elses money" at worst and "less profits for the shareholders" at bes

When the money really starts drying up it will be on the table again, for now it's "someone elses money" at worst and "less profits for the shareholders" at best (which is not an incentive for an engineer on the ground). There's also a lot of FUD regarding hiring more staff, my observed experience is that hyperscalers need an equivalent number of people on rotation- it's just different skills (learning the intricacies/quirks of different product offerings on the hyperscaler vs CS/Operational fundamentals) - so everyone is scared to overload their teams with work and potentially need to hire people -- you can couple this with the fact that all migrations are up-front expensive and change is bad by default. There will come a day where there simply isn't enough money to spend 10x the cost on these systems. It will be a sad day for everyone because salaries will be depressed too, and we will opine the days of shiny tools where we could make lots of work disappear by saying that our time is too expensive to work with such peasant issues.