I mean sure, just copying Ansible to the target machine and running it locally 'fixes' things, but at what point should it still be considered Ansible? You lose

I mean sure, just copying Ansible to the target machine and running it locally 'fixes' things, but at what point should it still be considered Ansible? You lose so much with -local, at least: - centralized vault, target nodes need access to secrets - "serial:" no longer available, you can't do rolling upgrades any more - "hostvars" no longer available, you can't query facts from other machines - no centralized trigger mechanism, status or failure reporting etc. Put another way, you could claim ansible-local fixes things for the same reason you could claim bash is network-aware agentless automation because you can copy shell scripts between machines