On: Offline-First Apps: Why Should Apps Be Made to Wor...

[hsn915]

Offline-first forces you to reconsider your design / architecture.

It does not force you to replicate your functionality.

What forces you to replicate your stack is poorly designed architecture.

[Existenceblinks → hsn915]

He said "software engineering resource isn't free" so online-only may require simpler and cheaper solution. For business point of view, that architecture is considerably great, not poor.