Then you could just keep a local copy available as a fallback in case the latest code cannot be fetched. Not doing the bare minimum and screwing the end user is

Then you could just keep a local copy available as a fallback in case the latest code cannot be fetched. Not doing the bare minimum and screwing the end user isn't acceptable IMHO. But I also understand that'd take some engineer hours and report virtually no benefits as these outages are rare (not sure how Roomba's reliability is in general on the other hand) so here we are.