I spent 55 years in construction, mostly hi-rise, finishing up as construction manager on a pair of 40-storey towers. Retired now.
Here's what I've come around to: for most jobsite work, a program you keep on your machine beats a subscription.
A few reasons.
Nobody can switch it off. Every subscription is a vendor decision away from a price hike, a retired feature, or a company that folds. A file that opens in any browser has nothing to install and nothing to expire — it opens the same way in ten years as it does today.
It works without a connection. Site trailer, basement, a laptop in the truck at 6 a.m. No login screen, no "reconnecting."
No account and no IT approval. A superintendent shouldn't have to ask head office for permission to open a file.
The job data stays put. Owners and developers get twitchy about where their numbers live, and they're not wrong to.
You can get it out again. This one gets overlooked until the day you need it. If the data is on your disk in a format you can open, then handing it to an owner at closeout — or moving it into something else — is a copy and paste, not a support ticket.
The usual objection is "what if your computer dies?" That doesn't hold up the way it used to. Windows syncs Documents and Desktop to OneDrive out of the box — the file is already backed up whether you thought about it or not. Just don't leave it sitting in Downloads.
Where the rental model does win: several people editing the same thing at the same time. That's genuine. But most of what I did day to day wasn't that. One person owns the schedule, everyone else gets a copy to read.
Curious whether people running jobs now see it differently.