Clients refusing to work with off shore teams.

That’s a bargain not to have to work with offshore teams. I’d do it, too. When VMWare switched from formerly-US-based support to offshore, the quality dropped drastically. When I was running their products at scale back in 2009-2018, until the switch their support was great. Knowledgeable, prompt, reliable and frequently knew more than I did.

In 2016 or so when VMWare began to transition to overseas support, I always knew far more than the person giving me support. In fact, I often had to help the support person do their job.

So I just stopped calling them even though the hosting provider I was working for was paying VMWare $200,000 per year for support alone. Support that was not happening.

In general, any experience I’ve had with an offshore team, no matter from what country (because some people accuse you of racism if you don’t want to work with someone who doesn’t know jack shit), has been terrible. Maybe there is a good one somewhere but I have yet to run across it.