It would be cool if the author could elaborate on this conversation: "As the conversation developed, I eventually agreed that many of the public cloud services

It would be cool if the author could elaborate on this conversation: "As the conversation developed, I eventually agreed that many of the public cloud services were not user friendly and had an overly high barrier to usage" ...as I read through the article is sounds like it was probably around bare-metal needs - still, elaboration would be nice here :)