I come from an era of datacenters, colos and whatever else but I learned to adopt new terminology. Cloud isn't just a datacenter, it's all the services on top of it that exist remotely. All the things you don't manage. All the services you make use of. Anything you are not personally installing is in the cloud. That's how we've come to know it and that is the language the mainstream user knows. Just as we'll have difficulty accepting the rebranding of the internet to the Metaverse, it will be a thing that spans far beyond network connectivity.

Who's we? In many countries Metaverse is the Internet by your definition. Lots of PR money has been spent making that the social truth for probably billions of humans. I'm sure everyone over in those continents who likes to use the actual technology that underpins the buzzwords is being force teamed too into thinking they're a dinosaur for not accepting Facebook's dominion.