Ouch! Reminds me of:
- I'm never going to use cell phones. I care about voice quality (me decades ago)
- I'm never going to use VoIP. I care about voice quality (everyone but me 2 decades ago).
- I'm never going to use a calculator. I am not going to give up on reasoning.
- I'm never going to let my kids play with <random other ethnicity>. I care about good manners.
I'm never going to use use Blockchain.
I'm never going to use use NFTs.
I don't really get the sentiment. If you're in engineering/computers, you are fundamentally in the business of replacing people with technology. Cloud solutions resulted in people in IT/dev ops losing their jobs. So much SW out there has displaced real people in the last 5 decades.
Do you want to go back to the days of dealing with switchboard operators to make phone calls?
This happened only in the phantasy world of deluded MBAs who were sold on the narrative of the cloud operators taking over their infrastructure management. If you ever worked on any of the hyperscaler-based infrastructure, it is actually more complex than the more simple on-premise setups people used to have. I am not saying it is bad that way, I actually enjoy working with the cloud more than with on-premise stuff, but just to highlight you are just making such a bad comparison here.