I hope so too. But I fear that it will feel inadequate if we know there is always a $20 online model that is an order of magnitude better. I don't think there will be a "good enough" local model so long as frontier models look so much better.

Seems like most people have settled on Opus 4.6 as the breaking point (me as well).

Once I can spend 10k to run Opus 4.6 at home, I'm done.