Amazon style drone delivery + rental of household appliances is the future imo. A great way to save space in ever smaller city housing too
The smart I will GET is a buggy bad UX app controlled blender that only runs on android 2.2 phones and no newer phone OS AND requires the mfgr to keep the big brother server in china online or else its just an abstract sculpture brick on my counter. It'll monitor every use to sell to corporations and it'll post on my behalf on facebook primarily to embarrass me. It'll be less reliable and shorter lived than a purely mechanical blender, and it'll probably require a foul and obnoxious financialization scheme where I have to subscribe to a monthly "blender service" to use it at all. An hour with the diagonal cutters and my soldering iron will rip out the "smart" thus improving my user experience, or maybe I'll have to commit some DMCA violations. Commit some DMCA violations to mix a margarita...
Its about the same level or intensity of hardware and tech in each case, its just the business model of "smart" right now is much more the latter than the former and therefore "smart" always suxs and the public is starting to figure that out. Which on a meta level sucks because if I had infinite spare time I am completely capable of making and selling the former "smart" blender, but the disaster of the "latter" smart blender will poison the marketplace such that people would run in terror away from my (former-type) smart blender.