Glowforge is cloud-based too though, and doesn't accept gcode (ddingus's criterion from another comment on this post [1]). What evidence is there that Glowforge isn't just at an earlier phase of the same pattern?
Nice to know.
I need to edit while I can.
There is no evidence.
Anytime there is lock in on machines, there will eventually be rent seeking.
I have zero trust on this.