I don’t understand, you acknowledge that vanilla web apps wrapping CRUD aren’t the only architectures but are the only ones suited to cloud? The entire point of the post you’re responding to is that cloud makes many architectures easy, including that one. I can personally vouch for having done wildly different use cases on cloud involving analytics and data processing.
This is the only use case you see for what I described? Most data processing I saw works exactly like that, too: some compute cluster using a shared persistence layer (either object store or a network filesystem).
Edge computing, otoh, explicitly exists because not everything can be handled well in that way.
