I kind of agree with your assessment. Running models not just on local, but cheap and lightweight frameworks will drive the next phase.

Not trying to plug, but I do't know any other way. I wrote a piece couple of days ago on small models and memory usage on the edge devices- https://polign.com/blog-edge-agent-memory and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450816 closing on the same problem.