The problem with ansible-pull is that you can no longer use it coordinate changes across machines, which is very useful for deployments for example.

What's preventing that?

I mean sure, just copying Ansible to the target machine and running it locally 'fixes' things, but at what point should it still be considered Ansible? You lose so much with -local, at least:

- centralized vault, target nodes need access to secrets

- "serial:" no longer available, you can't do rolling upgrades any more

- "hostvars" no longer available, you can't query facts from other machines

- no centralized trigger mechanism, status or failure reporting

etc.

Put another way, you could claim ansible-local fixes things for the same reason you could claim bash is network-aware agentless automation because you can copy shell scripts between machines

Time to add “skilled in network-aware agentless automation” to my resume!