I disagree, it gives me the ability to apply first principle knowledge unhindered by whatever fuckass idiotic idiosyncrasies a particular cloud platform considers “good design”
AWS, Azure, GCE, Alibaba Cloud - all the same crap, different names and slightly different jenga towers.
It applies to surprisingly a lot of crap and it’s a good substitute for where we can’t put automation in yet.
I think this works better when you have the underlying knowledge which was probably always a minority of the market ( but still a significant cohort )