I've been doing this pre-2012. There's always been vendor lock-in. Someone has to implement technologies to the standards, those are most of the time commercia

I've been doing this pre-2012. There's always been vendor lock-in. Someone has to implement technologies to the standards, those are most of the time commercial interests. Apache vs nginx, rhel vs debian, spring vs j2ee, etc. etc. I think it's good for the young crowd to get into self-hosting. You learn more fundamentals that way, for sure. But I'm not looking to move stuff into self-hosted. I get unlimited scalability in AWS. I can standup and run an app for $0-$5/month depending on how I want to build it. That app will have unlimited scalability, redundancy, automated backups, etc. It's not worth dealing with the headaches of managing things myself. Most everything is the way it is today for good reason, it's just that the youngsters haven't had to learn those reasons themselves.