The cloud is perfectly appropriate for a lot of usecases. To be honest, it seems like you are really bad at making decisions for organizations (but really good at being a commenter on Hacker News!)

Funny, but no. I've merely watched smaller companies evaporate because they fell for the cloud trap. Wish I could have helped them, but they were very gung-ho on the cloud being the future. Many I've discovered because of their goodbye message got linked here on HN, they imploded not because they failed to launch or failed to find a following, but they failed to overcome AWS eating all their profits.