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Keep in mind that the number of devs that are inexperienced is very high. Growth in the industry has been explosive. So there is a large population of devs that just don't understand how one might reasonably live, and even prosper, on the literal server in the basement or closet. Doing so sounds scary and arcane. They have never experienced the old memes of tripping on server power cables and backhoes accidentally digging through your network line being among the more dangerous events in life.

Among the older devs, a sizable amount of them worked in large companies with ineffectual IT departments where the cloud also meant scrapping the red tape in favor of shadow-IT and actually being able to get stuff done. They, largely, think the cloud is the greatest because it materially improved their lives in poorly run organizations. So it simply must be grand.

With these motivations you can come up with any number of arguments that sound plausible to defend the cloud.

There are a few people with significant experience on both sides, that advocate for cloud. I must conclude that their experience largely falls into the few buckets where it does tend to make sense.

My experience is that cloud is insanely expensive - if you can run and keep a competent IT dept.