I think a short-term driver towards local models is tooling. As difficult as reliably getting useful output can be, and as fragile as the resulting product can

I think a short-term driver towards local models is tooling. As difficult as reliably getting useful output can be, and as fragile as the resulting product can be, you want assurances of stability that don't exist with a model in someone else's cloud. I'm not an expert on anything, though.