> the idea being that the platform is "someone else's computer"

I have a vague memory of once having a userscript or browser extension that replaced every instance of the word "cloud" with "other peoples' computers". (iirc while funny, it was not practical, and I removed it).

fwiw I agree and I do not believe using "the cloud" for everything is a good idea either, I've just never heard of the word "clown" being used in this way before now.

“Cloud to butt” was popular in the early cloud days. It went around Google internally, and caused some… interesting issues.