While I somewhat agree, in my experience in practice the “just run it locally” approach results in software I need to use a clumsy and slow VPN to access, runs

While I somewhat agree, in my experience in practice the “just run it locally” approach results in software I need to use a clumsy and slow VPN to access, runs on servers that are either wildly over or underpowered, is constantly going down for maintenance, and never gets updated beyond essential security patches. The org I work for recently switched from on-prem Jira to cloud Jira, and the cloud version is a breath of fresh air by comparison. I’m sure some IT departments are better at this than others, but in my experience most of them aren’t great at it.