This looks like a big enough change that someone could fork Sentry. Disconnecting the the fancy search and reenabling sqlite shouldn't be lots of work for the next few releases. I bet there are companies that will do it in private - would be interesting to see if any of them go public though.
It could be, and I might also just sit on the current version in a dev environment (as I assume they won't break their public API anytime soon). But the first time I hit jank I'm going to be going "man, why did I take the path of least resistance?".
The marketing spiel in this is pretty shitty, too. "You can evaluate whether you want us to handle this with the cloud!" I think I'd rather evaluate whether or not I want to use you.
As I said, my automatic recommendation has always been Sentry; I now need to reevaluate this. Any locally-hostable-for-dev,-SaaS-for-prod options I should be looking at?