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I don't think it is that problematic to put your WiFi credentials to a random website, since the possibility of the creator is a scammer AND lives near enough to you so it can exploits that fact is really small.

However sure, having the piece of mind that this will not happen may still make it more worth it do it yourself.

It’s easier to verify the CLI tool, since it wouldn’t be available in my distribution’s repositories if it contained phone-home code.

Much CLI code is installed around the distros repos.

Its also very easy to put a webapp into offline mode

How do you do that? Private browsing + cut ethernet?

Indeed it is! But we still need to reset the web app entirely after having used it. Service worker might cache messages.