Saas can compound to higher costs due to the recurring subscription, flexibility comes at a cost, especially when unnecessary features are bundled.
Much like you mentioned of salesforce, there's a limited control on your data (and your customer's)
It can't be airgapped for critical functions
You're locked in to one vendor in many cases
Cost creep when features are bundled during the enshitification phase (salesforce again)
It reduces consumer/enterprise options since it's much more profitable so it conducted to the dissappearance of several perpetual license models for scientific software that has now compounded into billions of tax money being buried for use rather than any kind of useful feature addition.
There's nothing inherently bad or good about SaaS per se as it can make sense, the problem is it became the racehorse the entire industry bet on and *EVERY *SINGLE *FUCKING *PIECE *OF *SW is now fucking SaaS, from printer SW to games on a flipping phone to access to basic scientific sofware. What could have been a great invention to provide scalability and low upfront cost to enterprises spread like cancer and corrupted the entire software industry. For that, Salesforce has been relegated to their own hell circle.
For those who are not in the know, the cancer of software as a service was pioneered by salesforce. The devil has created a new circle in hell where salesforce employees are sent not to compete with actual demons because even in hell there are unions.
Wait, but we had recently a feature from PMG on YouTube showing how a significant portion of the art of devs like the coalition and Naughty Dog being contracted to sweatshops in Asia. So basically game development budgets are to pay a handful of talented programmers and the friends of the art and writing department while sweatshops do the work. Mega lol, we have bay area entitled shitheads playing ping pong in the office and adoring Elon while costing millions while the people who do the work are getting abused across the planet...
XESS is hardware agnostic, it's just faster and slightly better with XMX vs DP4A. I'm hoping that will be a similar situation with RDNA4 and earlier. Granted, it's wishful thinking, it would be a shame if that was not the case. There's an entire gen of strix halo APUs with RDNA 3.5 and that would greatly benefit from a better upscaling algo to save battery life/improve performance. Hell, Mendocino, Dragon Range, Rembrandt and Phoenix Point getting RDNA 4 would be absolutely amazing.
Huh!?