Well, the market for local inference is already quite large, to say the least. “It didn’t pencil out in my business favor” doesn’t seem like a fair criticism, especially for an app clearly focused on the hobbyist—>SMB market where compute costs are dwarfed by the costs of wages and increased mental load.

I definitely see your specific point tho, and have found the same for high-level usecases. Local models become really useful when you need smaller models for ensemble systems, to give one class of use case you might want to try out —- e.g. proofreading, simple summarization, tone detection, etc.