Never in my life did any workplace I worked at celebrate this. Even when I worked at an server hosting company.

the integrations between their products are so seamless

You’re joking, right?

The actual reasons why orgs choose cloud is usually 1. Decision maker got sweet talked (interpret that however you want) by a cloud sales rep 2. Shift capex to opex and/or 3. Shift liability risk. (Bonus pt: decisionmaker needed cloud in his resume before jumping ship and moving on to their next bigger gig)

If you think third party services are being chosen for tech reasons alone you clearly don’t have experience in the sector.

I hate people exploiting the open source community but this is not the battle we need to be fighting when it comes to cloud. (Privacy and security would be a better angle.)

Source: IT worker for almost 2 decades now

Got a source for that or just ad hominem today?

Endless population growth (which isn’t possible on a finite planet) is only good for the economy if your economy is a Ponzi scheme.