What if you want to create transcripts for 100s of hours of private recorded audio? I for one do not want to share that with the cloud providers and have it get used as training data or be subject to warrentless search under the third party doctrine. Or what if you want to run a spicy Stable Diffusion fine-tune that you'd rather not have associated with your name in case the anti-porn fascists take over? I feel like there are dozens of situations where the cost is really not the main reason to prefer a local solution.