Comment by toyg

1. Sysadmins had to find new careers after cloud providers destroyed their livelihood.

2. cloud providers try very hard to lock you in, by offering all sorts of advanced goodies. They tend to come with a learning curve, and they all accumulate. Sooner or later someone comes up with cross-provider solutions, and they too have learning curves.

3. inventing new ecosystems means creating new work for advocates and ninjas. You don't become a rockstar by diligently doing what has been done before, but by finding (or inventing) a niche and becoming a guru.

4. some problems are indeed hard to solve, and the more products try to do that, they more they get complex.

5. everyone thinks they will have Facebook-scale problems, even when they never will.