As fair as this statement is to make, it doesn't make it suck any less. It's a sad state of affairs where this is commonplace enough.

The Cloud was supposed to FIX the problem of mobile computing, not exasperate it.

*exacerbate

Essentially this, and my biggest gripe with sending your entire life to these hosted services.

Yep, I'm really wondering exactly how many decades or centuries it'll finally take for people to understand the value of open-source/Free software. All I see is people bitching and complaining about how various proprietary solutions and services are failing them when they get the rug pulled out from under them: Windows 10 updates borks their computer or adds spyware or advertising, Google shuts down yet another service, some cloud service has terrible security or has a huge outage leaving their business unable to operate, etc. It's simple: if you don't control your own software and infrastructure, you have no control over your destiny and are at the whim of some other entity.