[xg15]

Fully agreed on the last point (and the hypothesis that this is one of the factors driving the ridiculous "talk to the cloud for everything" design pattern in IoT.)

Seems the current push is making certain legitimate use-cases not just hard but pretty much impossible. Such as providing a local web server that is independent of the public internet.

Devices used to provide embedded web pages as an easy way to show config options. This seems to have become completely impossible: Even if you'd jump through all the hoops of generating a unique subdomain and certificate for each device, you'd also somehow need to update that certificate on that device. So your (possibly fully local) device now needs internet access for the sole reason so the browser does not refuse to display the local configuration page.