I am not that old, develop most apps besides embedded firmware for the cloud and have been yelling at it from the beginning to absolutely no effect. In my experience it is often C-level customers who embrace the cloud with most enthusiasm.
Interestingly the older generation often had the most reservations against hosting data on external systems. They are generally very big on everything surveillance though.
Yeah, every so often the bizdev guy at my office who also serves as our POC for the web developers pings me about some Azure IoT thing or another, and every time I read the documentation I think "that's great, if only we had any of the problems that that solves."
Interestingly the older generation often had the most reservations against hosting data on external systems. They are generally very big on everything surveillance though.