I mean, electricity is also very important, but that doesn't imply that everybody in tech should be configuring their own wiring. It's fine to do that if you want to, but it is completely reasonable to expect that most people should be able to rely on someone else to do the work of ensuring that the key infrastructure runs well, and not think about it so that they can focus on the specialization they want to handle.
We're not talking about running bare metal in your garage but paying Hetzner or alike 2,50 Euro/month so you're independent from the shenanigans of the automated, AI-"improved" systems of Google. That's a fair price to pay if you value your electronic communication abilites.
