Of course the bigger question is why a refrigerator is even a "connected device".
For the same reason, we hardly have heating meters in Germany that aren't wireless connected to the maintenance company.
To save costs doing maintenance trips to check their state.
Modern HVAC and fire control b systems for buildings are often connected now as well
It also wouldn't be a big deal when a supermarket employee makes an old-fashioned phone call (gasp!) to the refrigerator service company when some red light starts blinking ;)
For last few years everyone talks about moving away from selling products towards selling cooling services, and connecting everything to the internet.
Of course, there are good premises - predictive maintenance, automation etc. But this won't make disasters that await us any smaller.