alt Hacker News> then won't Google simply improve on these regressions using their decades of cloud database expertise
The developer experience of trying to emualate firebase locally has always been horrible, going on fifteen years, so I would guess no, they won't because they don't care.
Would disagree here given that Firebase is the only one of the three owned platform toolkits (Azure, AWS, GCP) that has a really complete first party emulator suite.