Today yes, but between the improved performance of smaller on device models and the hardware itself getting better this issue is short lived.

I don't want to put information into a black box of mystery that can then be used for other monetization purposes. I am still waiting for a realistic local solution.

Compute evolved from batch systems with time sharing to responsive systems in your pocket. Why wouldn’t that happen here?

there was a time when mainframes was the main thing.. we’ll look back and say data centers was a thing.. (hopefully if we lucky)