Comment by fg137

I understand all of that.

It's a business decision, and I'm not sure if they made the right decision. Most client-only web applications are open source because they know there is no business in selling it as a service. Photopea somehow is an exception, but its business model is getting questionable which is not a surprise at all.

It's also possible to use a combination of cloud based and local computation. Figma is doing quite well in that regard, especially with the use of WebAssembly. No doubt that potentially means more work, and potentially forcing users to create account etc. But hey, that's a business decision as well. If you don't do anything but just keep everything in JavaScript, this was going to happen.