It’s a general political trend too: de-globalization. Everyone sold the idea of globalisation and off-premise ethereal globalized cloud services. Both good when they work, but a total disaster when they don’t.
There’s a reason that I admire the federal system of the US:
For all the US’s problems, devolving critical functions to layers of differing granularity has proven surprisingly robust to many faults.
I suspect we’ll see economic equivalents, where critical functions are spread around at various scales. We dont need to be either totally globalized or totally domestic.
Do you admire federated system of Germany too? They famously have many department operating semi-autonomous, causing immense friction in adopting any new changes. Do you admire federated system EU? Where countries can run unchecked for years and it is very hard to fix issues in any specific member country.
I'm not criticizing any country or union here, and not praising them. I merely highlighting that maybe federation on its own is not the main cause of success of USA and there are some other more important factors at play.
Except that anything local will be more expensive than anything globally scaled, and the same people complaining about globalization "suddenly" don't want to pay more for the same.
It's not like alternatives for MS services doesn't exist for decades. There smaller and more people friendly hostings, email services, file shares, office software etc. The problem is that people complaining about MS services don't wan't to use them or pay for them.
Decentralization is the way.