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I think it's difficult to make an electronic sensing device that logs data locally but isn't a little DIY. There's not a great standard for passing around data on a local network. Perhaps the best way to do this from a consumer device would be to log to a USB stick.I was a bit surprised by that, but ultimately guessed at the same thing - even ignoring the (IMHO repugnant) cloud-based business model, there isn't one obvious way to record data off-device in local-first way that would be useful for non-tech / non-industrial users. It's kind of similar to the problem of transferring files between two computers: there are so many ways you could do it, with different requirements and tradeoffs[0], that there is no one universal way everyone can rely on. See also [0].
WRT. DIY, I don't mind extensive software-level DIY (especially that I'm DIY-ing the data storage, analysis and reporting side), but I currently want to avoid hardware DIY.
Thanks for your thoughts and the links; I found your analysis under[3] particularly useful and insightful. I'm actually looking into this space for health reasons - we don't have regular wildfires where I live, but I do have allergies, and now children with allergies too, so I want to better understand and control our indoor air.
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[0] - https://xkcd.com/949/