Perhaps my tech stack is simpler and requires less maintenance than yours.

I suppose with your 20 years of experience ( Github exists since 2008 as a reference), you can give me some actual examples that the cloud improves on workload?

Eg. I have a small member management saas that I haven't touched in the 6 years that it's running. I just realized that it's probably hosted on my test server ( my first VPS) and if it wasn't used, I wouldn't have been able to send the yearly invoice :)

The dogma is in thinking that the cloud makes everything simpler. It isn't. It makes difficult things more simple, but in a lot of cases, you don't need them in the first place.