It doesn't take any more competent people to self-host a modern stack, than it does to babysit how a company uses something like Azure.
The original value proposition is false, and more and more are realising this.
The original value proposition is false, and more and more are realising this.
But I agree that moving your own infra or outsourcing operations when you have managed to do it on your own for a while is most likely misguided. Speaking from experience it introduces costs that cannot possibly be calculdated before the fact and thus always end up more complicated and costlier than the suits imagined.
In the past, when similar decicions were made, I always thought to myself: You could have just hired one more person bringing their own, fresh perspective on what we are doing in order to improve our ops game.
I think an operations background gives you a strong ability to smell nonsense and insecurity. The DevOps team seems to be people who want to be 'developers' rather than people who care about 'ops'. Yaml slinging without thinking about what the yaml actually means.