When I bought my TV it was a curved smart TV. I wanted neither curved nor smart, but it was forced upon me by the requirements OLED and 4K.
It also has support for 3D. Don't care about that either.
It also has support for 3D. Don't care about that either.
You used to be able to get away from the smart "features" by going with a commercial display, but that is increasingly less true. Hopefully the smarts on smart commercial displays don't involve spying on you are showing ads though.
It's been a few years. Maybe it was a temporary state, or the stores didn't have flat available. Or they were only in specific sizes.
In any case I've not connected it to my network, and it's happy to act as a dumb screen.