> Author here. I maintain Tabularis, the open-source client the post is about, so obviously I have a horse in this race. > > The part I'd most like to be challenged on: I claim the account/cloud trend in database clients is a funding-model artifact rather than a user need. The counterargument I keep hearing is that team workspaces and synced query history are genuinely valuable, and we just don't ship them. That's true — we don't, and the post lists what local-first costs us. > > One thing I checked before writing this because I knew someone here would: the only autonomous network call the app makes is the Tauri updater hitting GitHub releases. No telemetry, no crash reporting. The code is on GitHub if you want to verify.