It's never absolute in either direction, and I don't understand the persistent desire to frame it as such. Local dev on some level will always be a fallback, or

It's never absolute in either direction, and I don't understand the persistent desire to frame it as such. Local dev on some level will always be a fallback, or in hardware dev cases a priority, because local devices will always exist. Cloud dev will always be a priority because cloud-based services are what most end users rely on now, on some level, whether they know it or not.