I agree. It is so crazy that a company would make so many 90% solutions, but never have it go all the way around. There are a dozen different ways to get data into AGOL, a dozen ways to get that data into apps to edit, but all the methods of getting that data back into your Geodatabases (god forbid you use SDE) are janky, half baked, or cannot be automated correctly without being logged into desktop.
Close to perfection, just to run away screaming in flames...