Maybe its intentionally avoided because it could be very depressing. My aunt knows all about virtualized server images and oversubscription issues and allocating networked storage appropriately to avoid thrashing and all the fun of moving images from one clustered machine to the other and dealing with images that make weird assumptions about being run natively rather than as an image, and backups of a large virtualized data center, and disaster recovery of virtualized data centers. Talking to her is just like talking to a 2013 vsphere admin. However she's not a 2013 vsphere admin, shes a retired mainframe VM op/sysprog from 40 years ago in the 70s. Nothing has changed since then other than some meaningless numbers and some trademarked marketing terms.
Nothing is new in IT, and nothing EVER changes except trivia like numeric quantities and trademarked marketing terms. Not just the product lifecycle, but the concept lifecycle is very much like formulaic Hollywood movies. Once you know its a romantic comedy you know exactly whats going to happen, from the first marketing to the final announcement of unavailability.