[microtonal]

should we just stop progress?

I would love if companies would explore on-device processing more. While it might not work in this case, it should work fine for e.g. data extraction for flight tracking, hotel bookings, package tracking, etc.

[TeMPOraL]

Oh yes, so much this. The cloud business model thing leads to not just privacy-eroding solutions, but to implementations that are absolutely ridiculous from the engineering point of view, and exist only because the company thought it's a good way to extracting rent from the user. See, for instance, most of the work done around IoT, home automation and by hardware startups.