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Counterpoint: I think that just means that on prem needs to close the tooling gap some. Cloud was a centralized point of leverage where improved tooling became worth investing in, but now we're at a point where cloud is vulnerable to somebody following in their footsteps by making on prem not require as much tending.

You still won't be able to do it with idiot monkeys. You just have to enable a small team of strong people. It may be getting harder to find those people, but it's not so bad if you only need a handful of them.

https://oxide.computer/ is shooting for this space, from what I can tell?