If I have an MP4 video file sitting in cloud storage somewhere, does UPnP/DLNA provide an easy way for me to use my phone to tell my TV to play that file? Also same question but for Netflix.
Netflix at least could easily provide a link. When it is on a fileshare somewhere, is that something Chromecast can handle? If so it will be essentially serving the file from your device, and I see no reason you couldn't similarly ask DLNA to stream from a server you're running locally. In fact I do very much the same thing regularly (using swyh, quite a useful tool)
