The same reason your parents wouldn’t let you eat ice cream for breakfast when you were 5 years old. Lol
Dash cam priority;
1.) Reliability
2.) Durability
3.) Image Quality
Bell & whistle features, Cloud, ADAS, geo-fencing, A.I. can all pound sand until 1, 2, and 3 have been “mastered”.
The A229 Pro was released to the public September 2023, it wasn’t until February 27, 2024, (5 months) we got an “acceptable” public firmware for image quality, and bug fixes that should have been completed before they released the camera to the public.
Night time HDR performance is still only 90%-95% effective compared to night time HDR performance of the A139 Pro & A119 Mini 2.
Cloud is 99% software and 1% hardware, (gross over exaggeration) and you expect Viofo to just add cloud without degrading RELIABILITY, DURABILITY, IMAGE QUALITY.
BlackVue is the current king of cloud, and they’ve been doing cloud dash cams since 2015, (9 years) and they still have “issues” to put it kindly.
Maybe in a decade Viofo will adopt cloud, I predict it will most likely require an entire new re-designed platform that would equate to launching a different brand similar how Toyota started Lexus, and Honda started Acura, etc.