I understand where you're coming from, but the essence of the entire "cloud" thing, to me, was that the underlying infrastructure disappeared. We went from managing root servers, or VPS maybe, to transparently scaling resources. Using "the cloud" means switching to application-based hosting, where the hardware below doesn't matter anymore, and that's a pretty significant change to me. I don't have to manage the SSH daemon config anymore, instead I push Docker images into a registry. Of course below all that it's still the same technology we had before, but it's evolved quite a bit, and I actually appreciate that change.