Being a customer of an OpenStack provider isn't exactly a picnic. I could show you a long stack of support tickets from all of the things constantly going wrong.
Given a long list of support tickets vs Effectively relying on responsible stewardship by Musk and the King of America, I suspect there will be many a developer who find the long list of ticketed issues to be the less hard problem to tackle.
There are sadly a lot of "sky is falling" type people out there yes. This is why we have to determine a threat model before we implement a security response...
But that's also the point of my other comment in the thread -- a French company builds basically all of the physical infrastructure that datacenters run on. This attitude can be applied both ways.