For sure I agree with your overarching assessment though. The irony, as you noted, is even as consumer devices have gotten more and more powerful computation a

For sure I agree with your overarching assessment though. The irony, as you noted, is even as consumer devices have gotten more and more powerful computation and processing is being pushed to the backend/cloud. For example; to get a EC2 that's comparable with my laptop one has to pay through the nose. But still most of my machine's CPU cycles is idling and is used for rendering webpages. To make matters worse, most of the tools now a days are web only. Even if I want to use there's no app. There are exceptions of course such as IntelliJ, Figma etc., but sadly they should be the norm but aren't. To me, it feels as if because bandwidth got cheaper engineers just got lazy and stopped having to think to take advantage of client device's capabilities. It's gotten so bad that most of the apps wouldn't even start without internet connection.