Most smart appliances are ticking timebombs, and most serve no real purpose. I get that sometimes they can be neat, and I myself went through a phase myself of building a "smart apartment".

All I learned is the smart speaker assistants degrade over time, companies (even relatively big ones) go bust and take down any app support as they go, and that my life isn't too busy to fit small tasks into my day.

Incredible premiums to (maybe) simplify some relatively small home tasks. I've found it much more fulfilling to do many of those tasks myself and treat it like downtime from the other things I do.