Spent the first 10 years of my IT career driving towards greater control over the systems we managed, because "the reason the service is down is that someone else (usually a vendor) didn't do their job" was never an excuse. The last 5-10 years I've found myself ceding more and more control to cloud service vendors (like Microsoft). Less work for me ("raise a premium case"). Less stress too ("they're working on it, nothing for us to do"). Now I finding myself hoping I'll be retired before the pendulum swings back again.

everything old is new again.

cloud computing is basically batch processing in the mainframe of yesterday from a functional standpoint.

I just figured there was some "short term" misunderstanding. As always I looked like an idiot but hey in a good place with good people youll all just move onto the next topic and know the details will work themselves out regardless who is right.