Right on the mark. This is the way way to get people to agree to monitoring.
I want to control my thermostat and lights by speaking a command. I want my phone to open navigation to and from my place of work every morning and afternoon, so I'll know the fastest route WRT traffic. I want a smart speaker to catalog activities, tastes in music and movies for recommendations, to keep a database of liked recipes to give recommendations, to keep me abreast of news topics I'm interested in, and (in this case) to help me monitor my health.
I want all of this without having to worry about my entire life being uploaded to a private company.
Just look at the microcosm of modern televisions: no 'dumb' consumer televisions, no updates to broken apps running in the aging 'smart' televisions.
I have no enthusiasm for the future.
Really? So right now we're using internet, OSes, browsers and whatnot which were designed and built by USSR and North Korea?
I've been wanting to do the same sort of thing for my house, but self-hosted.