That is an interesting Hacker News type of phenomenon, but I personally enjoy reading the alternative solutions to a presented problem.

And sometimes it turns out that the SASS product is simply a wrapper around a cli tool... for example the product [1] Mole, which is a wrapper around ssh to make it easier... but not really necessary...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18236125

I prefer the 'combo of CLI tools' to a service where ever possible because those solutions are almost always simpler, easier to understand, portable, and easier to maintain.

That seems a very uncharitable reading of your parent post.

If you are privacy focused it is a better solution.

Only if we can say that SaaS obsessives have Cloud Syndrome