Same here, and that goes for "smart devices" in general. I do like that smaller outfits are starting to trend towards central PCs in a home that are the only piece that even can connect to the internet for such things. You know, basically how we imagined smart homes working in those "world of tomorrow" videos in the 50's.
The trend to sticking internet functionality into everything is everywhere. Half of the reason in most cases appears to be utter laziness in regards to the engineering teams for many of these products (near as I can tell). It is simpler nowadays with many of the software tools to write back-end cloud services than to do the same with firmware. It also means they can have more bugs and fix them on their server rather than needing to push out firmware to end-users. But it still makes for a garbage product much of the time in my opinion.
A while back I bought a couple smart light-bulbs for our bedroom. They are app controlled and you can change colors have a dimmer slider, etc. They can use bluetooth, but they mainly use wifi and require a freaking login. There is literally zero reason to add an account layer and cloud server. It's a goddamn light bulb! All I need from a FANCY light bulb is to turn on/off and let me set some mood lighting. The internet connectivity and account layer only make this thing harder to use as now I have trouble using my light-bulbs if my wifi is having issues...
I feel that we as a people continually get more technologically advanced while also getting dumber in how we think to apply just about any technology.
