I'd be happy to be able to manage our devices "out of band" when cloud control fails. My guess is this will never be allowed to happen, and thus now planning our exit from Meraki.

Agree 100%. Seeing people deflect this as an Internet issue and not Meraki is BS. Just like when Meraki deleted their entire object store and had no backups for it.This is the final straw for us. We are a healthcare customer and can't operate like...