I don't get the appeal of taking local task metadata, executing on a remote machine and then consuming results locally. I can imagine this for a collaborative

I don't get the appeal of taking local task metadata, executing on a remote machine and then consuming results locally. I can imagine this for a collaborative task, but not much else. Local computation has always led teams I've worked in to a superior (personalized, decentralized, fault tolerant, highly parallel) mode of operation. My tryst with working with remote computation ended when the 5 VMs we were using as a team for development were locked out and decommissioned without a notice due to a devops error. Thankfully, I did have local equivalents, which I habitually worked on and copied over to the VM for execution, not so much for my team members.