Local first software is more annoying and requires more sophisticated thick clients to develop for, especially as more of the world become connected, with even

Local first software is more annoying and requires more sophisticated thick clients to develop for, especially as more of the world become connected, with even airplanes being connected and soon, the middle of nowhere with starlink. So it's more expensive to write local only software as a result, you will probably deliver features more slowly than your cloud-first counterparts and thus you'll eventually be out competed unless your leveraging local first to deliver something that your cloud first counterparts can't do well, like speed & performance.