Out of curiousity why it would explain a lot? Honest question
I use local because when I start learning more about wordpress was the most simple local host approach to use. I did many website with it, import export and all good, pretty simple.
So never had a reason to complain.
The thing is that the website has 47 plugins active, had 2 previous developers that mess with the website and the owner is not sure what they did or not. It’s hosted on shared host so for example I tried to use Duplicator or other plugin and just breaks in the middle.
So my guess is that the live website has many configs that are messed up and when I copy to local those configs came with it.
I need a copy of the website because I want to fix and erase all those plugins but need to do it on a safe enviroment