That's an interesting take and I have thought about local-first a lot too. There are tradeoffs, the core cons I find are: - complex code, complex architecture vs traditional web apps - hard(er) to update app versions across users

The core selling point (hiding latency) is big I think. But, if you self-host, the user/business can put their server very close and reduce latency to unnoticeable levels.

I think local-first is cool, really cool and makes beautiful apps. But I think it's only worth it for a small subset of software, far smaller then self-hosted.