This keeps escalating... It needs to be stopped.

I personally think this is where it'll head after the bubble pops. We should be able to recover enough material to have something viable to run locally. The question will be "where the updated models come from?", it might be the public sector helping there and hopefully those will be truly FOSS and ethical (like Apertus).

Most JS projects end up incredibly bloated indeed. Luckily there are ways to improve the situation.

Indeed, it looks like Windows gave up on having a nice experience for native app development a while ago...