The problem presented is very foreign to me for this reason. Maybe it's because I've never been sold on "the cloud" and have always detested web development, but I would hope that the people who were drinking the Kool-Aid would realize that there's only so many buttons you can make to push other buttons before there's nowhere left to go.

A lot of the tools and libraries that I use every day are largely written and maintained by a single developer or a small group of developers. Some of these projects started before I was born and will keep on truckin' after I die. This sort of development has its ups and downs, but it's a good life in the long run.