The text discusses the challenges faced by users of traditional desktop GIS applications like QGIS, such as working with large datasets, data silos, high skills barriers, and static outputs. It highlights the benefits of using cloud-native platforms like CARTO to modernize geospatial tech stacks, including interoperability, scalability, data security, democratization, and collaboration. The text also explores how QGIS can be used in conjunction with a cloud-native solution like CARTO for tasks such as data preparation and geometry editing, and then leveraging the cloud-based platform for more advanced analytics and visualization. This hybrid approach allows users to harness the best of both desktop and cloud-native GIS capabilities, ensuring a comprehensive and efficient geospatial tech stack.