That not the point about "how many", the point from my view, it's the same software forum platform so self-hosted or cloud do not matters, the issue here that cloud hosted got more features, that it, even if only 1 feature add to it.
I knew reply here me or any others will not change IPS decision now days, that in the past when Matt and IPS team listen to their customers, .. .wait, they do listen to their cloud customers, maybe they headed that way to be only cloud forum software as it seem.
I been using IPB forum before 2002, I indeed register same year here as well, but Matt combine 2 accounts I have and flag my account as 2005 🙂
All in all, IPS support team the best in business, really what keep me going with IPS all these years, the support and some management I knew as well great dev's personals.