that's a lot of ifs / whens , and the remote models work right now, and are cheap. It's not a gym membership.
People and organizations have requirements that their data stays on their devices or at least in their networks.
i agree that's a benefit, but we've had that requirement for 40+ years and managed with cloud too.
While I might imagine that there are customers who would store their data in the cloud but not necessarily run inference on it, there are also those who have strict rules against any cloud-based service. Those are the ones I’m talking about.