Sometimes, yes. And in each of those cases, the right and motivated person can produce a better product that institutions.
Personally, I self host services on IaaS (Vultr). At least then I have full ownership of my data, and it guarantees I'm running on open source software that can be modified for data extraction at any time.
Personally, I self host services on IaaS (Vultr). At least then I have full ownership of my data, and it guarantees I'm running on open source software that can be modified for data extraction at any time.