Well said - much more succinctly put than my own response. > it's a set of tradeoffs that didn't land the way OP would prefer, but that doesn't make it univers

Well said - much more succinctly put than my own response. > it's a set of tradeoffs that didn't land the way OP would prefer, but that doesn't make it universally wrong. That's really the heart of the issue for me. There are users who are more concerned about privacy and owning their data who would prefer this trade-off. Also, indie developers who are working with constrained budgets may choose to architect with this limitation. I'm a big fan of looking at how we can design apps that put data back in the user's control. I think local storage is a really great technology to decentralise apps.