My expectation (well, maybe my hope) is that the Arduino community will diverge from the Arduino business and become self sustaining. Arguably, the cloud based

My expectation (well, maybe my hope) is that the Arduino community will diverge from the Arduino business and become self sustaining. Arguably, the cloud based development environment may have been a good idea, especially since a lot of students are stuck with locked down Chromebooks that can't install the toolchain locally. And I lack the expertise to speculate about this, but it would seem to me that if an entire Python toolchain can run in a web app (e.g., Jupyter Lite), then maybe an embedded dev environment could be make to work in a similar way.