Excellently written. I work in Dental IT and my industry is starting to see a shift away from on premises networks to the cloud.

Dr.s are jumping o mn the train not thinking it through.

They are leaving ownership and long term thinking for rentorship and short term thinking.

They take $200 every month for owning nothing and being upsold everything as new features are always being dangled in front of them vs $50,000 once to set up a network and internal domain with their OWN server running programs that they OWN and have all features fully developed and accessible and guaranteed to last 6-8 years.... Even this could be pushed to last longer because the nature of servers os that you can change out component pieces but the software giants do the same with operating systems!

Sorry long rant- but yes, you are right silicon valley is lost so far up their own ass and they are the leaders of industry society follows into the future.