Not a lot of need for the app. But it's horse crap they're ALSO removing Bluetooth.
As someone who owns a bunch of their products I'm bummed that it's another company to not buy from anymore. It's like every good product gets ruined by a greedy CEO
Hot take: this is why Android > iOS. When an app developer removes offline features you just manually install an old APK and you're done 👍
"But you can sideload apps and manually renew the self signed certificate every week on iOS too" - is going to be the reply to this post. Sure, because renewing the certificate every week from my Mac is so convenient (it can't be done from the iPhone itself - unless you configure a VPN to use someone else's computer and give them your credentials)