>Imagine a world where any random person can run a super-capable model on their own hardware with no limitations and no one to pull the plug.

That would be my heaven. I wish that for you and Joe down the street, as much as I wish it for myself! I would fight and even die to defend your right to free compute. Will you do the same for me, brother?

> Imagine a world where any random person can run a super-capable model on their own hardware with no limitations and no one to pull the plug.

It's an arms race. You have to run increasingly capable model partly because others can or do.