I agree. When they first announced the newer camera versions having Edge AI, I thought or hoped they would have on-board person detection and would support storing the clips locally so that you could view them without even needing the clips to be uploaded and stored on the cloud. That expectation turned out to be wrong.
Me too, although this post on another thread explained it at least somewhat for me:
That also explains for me what the “Notification speed: Advanced” (versus “Notification speed: Standard”) means on the camera product pages.
I personally haven’t noticed a difference in speeds but I get so many notifications that I rarely check them right away anyway. Any improvement in that regards is negated in my opinion by the different UI for the new cameras, which makes it much harder to scroll through the playback and find the part of the video I’m interested in. I’ll be interested too, to see how the Tapo app compares in that regard. It doesn’t matter how good the cameras are if the interface is bad.