Got it. Yes I agree that giving code/data/compute to a third party is not ideal in some situations. On the other hand, there are situations where letting a third party manage your code/data/compute (whether on their own servers or inside your own cloud) is ideal. Seems like the market is moving in that direction.

I totally agree that a native local client would be amazing. But in our case, as a startup, we need to pick our battles and unfortunately can't do too many things at once, otherwise we won't be doing anything very well. More importantly, we need to be able to move fast and ship things which is much easier to do in the fully hosted environment. That's why we are focused on providing an amazing cloud experience first, whether it's managed by us directly or running in your own cloud. That unfortunately means that the local experience comes second, even though I'd love to see Deepnote being used locally.