1. Leadership prefers to blame cloud when things break rather than take responsibility.

2. Cost is not an issue (until it is but you’re already locked in so oh well)

3. Faang has drained the talent pool of people who know how

If you think that’s bad you should see the outages when you self host without a big enough team to really manage it.

Opex > Capex. If companies thought about long term, yes they might consider it. But unless the cloud providers fuck up really badly, they're ok to take the heat occasionally and tolerate a bit of nonsense.

You can lease equipment you know…