No worries and maybe I am being harsh here but this whole thing seems like a couple big providers trying to push their own idioms on the DevOps industry, an industry which is already saturated on dishonest marketing kool-aid.

"Our solution is way better then all those pre-existing solutions!".

No. No it isn't. Stop acting like you're helping me when you're really selling me something.

Hi there. I think every open source project is trying to push "their own idioms" to the community. But good open source projects provide good technology directions and generic abstractions to reuse, not dishonest marketing. I suspect that marketing would not work if the project is not good -- people are really smart when choosing projects.

There's no such industry named "build app-centric platforms".

The shoveling of "Cloud Native" is in part a bid to sell cloud services at AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, Alibaba, etc. Just because the engineers on the ground doing the work conveniently ignore this point doesn't mean that the executives who ultimately green light and fund these projects aren't considering it the #1 priority.

More and more applications will be built on cloud with or without "cloud-native", we can't stop this trend or arguing technologies that intend to make this process smoother/easier.

And yes I agree those cloud providers will make more money with this trend.