> Self-hosting a database sounds terrifying.

Is this actually the "common" view (in this context)?

I've got decades with databases so I cannot even begin to fathom where such an attitude would develop, but, is it?

Boggling.

Over a decade of cloud provider propaganda achieves that. We appear to have lost the basic skill of operating a *nix machine, so anything even remotely close to that now sounds terrifying.

You mean you need to SSH into the box? Horrifying!

Can't agree more.