>There is no magic feature that is going to make me want a smart home.

Imagine the fun when it all goes obsolete in five years, a controller board dies with no replacement available, all for very little advantage.

Maybe this is Peak Technology. Sticking a computer and communications network on things that gain little from the addition. The one exception I might make is low-cost surveillance cameras, but of course it took the industry about ten seconds to add subscriptions and spying-on-you to the business model.