we keep moving the goalposts on when we're gonna be happy with local. first it was sonnet at home as the good enough, then opus, now it's the mysterious leading model that runs on infrastructure we can't feasibly have at home
I don't know about "we" but for me, I've never been happy with any of the models to bother with learning how to run one at home. I've got a Turing Pi and a bunch of other gadgets just sitting in a box (well the former I've got running after owning for several years of non-use).