No. SaaS has wormed it's way into your brain at such a deep level that you believe that "ops, hosting, security updates, and backports for compatability" are ne

No. SaaS has wormed it's way into your brain at such a deep level that you believe that "ops, hosting, security updates, and backports for compatability" are necessary to have high quality reliable software. None of that is true. Software can be written to just work on a machine you install it on. My copy of Adobe CS6 still works just fine, software doesn't just stop working on it's own. There are no ongoing maintenance costs for multiple versions. It works just fine installing off the same media it did 10 years ago. Security updates are not really necessary if your software runs in autistic mode. The reason you believe these things is because people build software in stupid ways in order to justify ongoing costs. Cloud-first software architecture is something you do because you want to collect rents, and then you try to write good software DESPITE it. It's not a sound technical choice for most of the software that goes that route.