Our politicians fear engineers so much that they risk high treason charges

Fear or ignorance? I've had similar discussions back in the day and there were two themes in all the arguments:

1. Major cloud providers are professionals (implying you somehow aren't). They do this so well people pay them, so they must be better at it than anyone else on earth.

2. Perceived ease of use: management has been using Gmail/MS Office for so long they naturally assume there is no alternative. Why switch from something that works? Plus when something goes wrong they have a full team fixing it instead of the local IT guys (back to argument 1).

Security, Privacy, Loyalty and Trust.

They are not the same.