The elephant in the room is the modular nature of FreeCAD. Unlike most cloud offerings, one can expand the capabilities with your own toolbox in a standard language like Python.

We actually recommended FreeCad as a core to a small medical device manufacturer looking for a custom solution to dynamically tweak their process. i.e. even a simple workbench plugin that takes a few variables to generate a simple manifold, and CAM to gcode in the same program... was a huge benefit for users now locked out of Autodesk and Solidworks walled ecosystems.

Ideal? No... Practical? You bet...

Best of luck =3