Cloudinary does a lot more than asset management, the depth of at-request-time functionality you can get just by URL params alone (like cropping with face detection...) is untouched by any of the cdn offerings of "let me resize/compress that for you".
The only thing that is shitty about the cloudinary model is the bandwidth costs. If someone could combine the functionality of cloudinary (it is genuinely unmatched in the space) with the cost of cloudflare... I'm in. They're even doing a great job on video editing (changing encoding format, bitrate, container, splicing in audio, cropping, thumbnail...) again using the same "just change the url and it's done" approach.
Saying CDNS will eat this by offering mediocre asset management is not apt.
The only thing that is shitty about the cloudinary model is the bandwidth costs. If someone could combine the functionality of cloudinary (it is genuinely unmatched in the space) with the cost of cloudflare... I'm in. They're even doing a great job on video editing (changing encoding format, bitrate, container, splicing in audio, cropping, thumbnail...) again using the same "just change the url and it's done" approach.
Saying CDNS will eat this by offering mediocre asset management is not apt.