I agree with you on everything, other than
I legitimately want to scream sometimes as I feel the continual death of local computing and actual software
...it seems to me that it's never been better, there's free software for everything, osm data for mapping, it's just that our expectations have shifted.
I am really enjoying this downfall of Bethesda, Blizzard, Ubisoft and EA, more than I enjoyed anything they published in half a decade. I wish death also to Gearbox. It's coming and after Randy bought and promptly ruined RoR2, my schadenfreude is tingling.