I think you are spot on. Just like big sound system aren't really dead in an era of miniaturisation, or vinyls aren't really dead in an era of digitalization, PCs or laptop won't really die in an era of cloudification.
I'm not sure i'm convinced by the argument that the cloud is a good thing because the hardware failures will have less consequence.
Apple sold a laptop that melted two weeks after it was bought. They could, instead, have made a laptop that WOULD NOT melt two weeks after it was bought.
I see the cloud as the biggest threat to individual online freedom and privacy. I will continue to buy big Thikpads, and avoid the cloud and tablets and the likes, at all costs.
Well the thing is that Fedora is the testing platform for RedHat.
Fedora is for the desktop users, it is used to test new features, and what RH finds interesting, they add it to their server oriented distro, Red Hat Linux.
So, the fact that Fedora is not server oriented is by design.
I share your skepticism. You see, I have been thinking a lot a bout democracy, decentralization and recent Iceland politics.
My conclusion is that the smaller you go, the more democratic olitics are. Period.
I share my criticism of the political globalisation, just to be laughed of afterward, but I still believe that the smaller, the most democratic, as is explified in a great way by Iceland.
The comments, so far, seem to perceive this change as negative. I, myself, think it is something really good for the overall innovation int the FOSS ecology to have a distro comited to testing new features.