Controllerless Networks

I know these only run aos10. Originally I read that aos was central management only, either in the cloud or on prem. I have 4x 555s at home, so I have no desire for any form of subscription licenses. I saw posts a year or so back saying they might be working on an instant-like solution in  aos10. Did this ever come to be or is it still subscription based only?

AOS 10 is exclusively Central managed.

At this moment it seems that this is end-of-line to use Aruba wlan if you want to go to wifi-7 and don't want to buy separate subscriptions...

I have few customers who has used Aruba just because they has had no must-have additional licenses to use features but AP7xxx series voids this road and I suppose those customers will start to check out other options which has no yearly license costs.