I'm not against the cloud, I use it in a daily basis. I don't mean you have to phisically own your servers. But it's not the same, to me, having your MySQL or Posgres DB up in the cloud, than using things like Firebase.
I just don't like the direction of moving the development environment to the cloud. It makes it easier to just consume third-party services and a) Don't understand how anything works, and b) Don't own anything.
If you know, fully aware, what the cloud implies, then sure, use it, but it's dangerous when the decision comes out of ignorance.
I guess there's not really much you can do about it though. People will do whatever is easier, and not everyone wants to know how things actually work.
I just don't like the direction of moving the development environment to the cloud. It makes it easier to just consume third-party services and a) Don't understand how anything works, and b) Don't own anything.
If you know, fully aware, what the cloud implies, then sure, use it, but it's dangerous when the decision comes out of ignorance.
I guess there's not really much you can do about it though. People will do whatever is easier, and not everyone wants to know how things actually work.