Microsoft isn’t going to force anyone to use the cloud desktop. It’s a product for businesses, and it’s probably going to be great, by lowering the cost and removing need to host and manage onpremise servers. The users won’t need to use a VPN or go through a RDS gateway that looks like it belongs in the year 2004. All they would need to do is login to their pc or the office-portal to reach the remote desktop. Remote desktops/applications are great, because a lot of users are not good with saving files/documents to a central storage, and you remove the risk that the hardware is going to fail and files be lost.
That’s when it’s in the parked position. When it’s in motion the seat is raised and the wheels get out of the way.