I'll give a reason why I would have chosen this route by way of example. A Hololens hackathon I went to had us using Unity and C sharp. Not knowing C sharp I still wanted to participate so I learned enough of it to be able to post to a python script in AWS where I could actually do some work.

Could I have done that locally? Sure but I didn't know the language. I just wanted to get something done and it did the job pretty well.

Maybe that applies in this situation? I don't know. Course what I was doing was for a throwaway project that I wasn't planning on releasing to the world.