Cry of the edge device

Greetings, everyone. Many people keep talking about very very large models that need the price of a car to run (Deepseek 4.1 Flash, Qwen Flash Next, and even Qwen3.8 27B. However, I do not see much appreciation and focus on models that are small enough to run on edge devices. Not only that, but even if they do mention them sometimes, I don't see any kind of exploration being made to make harnesses that run efficiently on those models and use them for the highest efficiency. What is the big deal? Is there a subreddit I don't know of, that cares about these things? Interests include 8gb of ram, intel core I5 8350U. Thank you.