I'm even surprised people ignorantly talking about advantages of buying very expensive device , run it only sometimes and aiming to beat cloud vendors.
If small model is great it will be hosted with good electricity cost and will be utilized 24/7.
Isn't it 2+2 of economics ?
CPU is a commodity, and we are still buying cpu and ram from vendors for same reason
Put a cost on sending your intellectual property to a saas provider who knows where. Half a problem when it is just your IP, hopefully not the IP of your clients. Maybe if one is building yet another html nobody really cares about.