Function/class/variables are bricks, you stack those bricks together and you are a programmer.

I just hired a team to work on a bunch of Power platform stuff, and this “low/no-code” SaaS platform paradigm has made the mentality almost literal.

Instead of paying for multiple services, I am now renting a decently sized VPS on Scaleway, and hosting all my projects on them.

That’s not self hosting. That’s moving your managed services down the stack from PaaS to IsaS.

It’s an unserious take on the impacts as well. No discussion of availability? Backups? Server hardening and general security? Access and authentication models? Sysadmin on aVPS is more than “running a bunch of commands now and then”, and the author ignores that entire workload.

Analogies are inherently false equivalences.

It’s illustrating the problem with the argument, not equating DRM technology with puppy kicking.