Yep I agree, I think people haven’t woken up to that yet. Moore’s Law is only going to make that easier.
I’m surprised by how good the models I can run on my old M1 Max laptop are.
In a year’s time open models on something like a Mac Studio M5 Ultra are going to be very impressive compared to the closed models available today.
They won’t be state of the art for their time but they will be good enough and you’ll have full control.