[Shorel]

They surely excel at picking the right tool for the right job.

One aspect of this trend of resentment you describe is that having comparatively less robust and using less efficient languages (like js with nodejs) in the servers would make them require more cloud resources.

We as humans tend to rationalize our past choices, probably a fair amount of the dismissal is from developers who think their "secret sauce" is using AWS with auto-scaling.

And the only one who wins something from this trend is Jeff Bezos and other cloud shareholders.