Well, no, unless I missed something, they have not been clear that local-storage 1Password will continue to work. They have carefully left the door open to changing that at some undefined point in the future.
At which point I will migrate away. I love the apps (use it on MacOS and iOS), but local-only storage and non-cloud sync are my hard requirements. I'm willing to pay a monthly rent, but will not 'cloudify' my passwords.
Did you see the links included in my parent post? The founder specifically said that standalone vaults will continue to be supported. You don't have to sync your standalone vault to any service if you don't want to. Though of course it'd be difficult to use both the desktop and mobile apps if you don't sync somehow.
