I will say that in the most part I agree with you. It is better to live in a civilisation, pay tax, have the litter collected, the roads paved, rather than trying to roll your own.

However, being able to, to varying degree, opt out of said civilisation when it runs counter to your ideals or becomes to authoritarian or means that existing within it could compromise what you believe in, is important. The cloud is great, but we must strive to have the skills to be self reliant so it is truly a choice to participate in it to the extent that we do.