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by acgourley 4816 days ago
While I agree that all users are taking the risk you describe, I think they reason they are using the website at all is the hope that an online tool will increase productivity via features only an online tool could be expected to have. That trade-off might be unavoidable.
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What are those features?
>What are those features?

being slow/laggy on complex designs on underpowered machines

Live collaboration, one click share, Q&A style community interaction, crowdsourced component databases, crowdsourced modules, forking...