That’s ok. So do I.

Performing sufficiently for cheap production cost, they’d be a low RISC high reward investment.

I have a supposedly smart washing machine that came with the apartment. Setting it up in my locked down appliances network, it didn’t work with home-assistant, required cloud access and wanted me to open up ports in the firewall. Nope. No network connection for you. You are a regular dumb old washing machine.