My memory and appraisal of this is very different from yours. About the cloud aspect, it was a major plus for me who regularaly work with several different computing platforms so I recall this as a crucial point in the initial marketing I saw. As to 50% of the value lost: since I paid half price, I guess I’m still getting full value then. what you value must be very different from mine. What values would that be other than end of life issues?
And just to cross reference my humble post on a trace of an object.
It works well and now I know how to make it work better in order to scan a part directly and cut a new one. This was a smaller part and just one piece under the camera. L