i'm shocked that 50% of people are willing to do it. I wouldn't do it simply for the hassle, setting aside any ideological opposition to mass surveillance by my dishwasher.

Having stuff in my friend's "smart home" stop working because there was a hurricane and it couldn't connect to servers far away was also vindicating, tho.

Maybe many of us are pleased that ordinary customers are (even unwittingly) falling in line with our own values on security or usability and our own distaste for tech hype. (No, putting something on "the cloud", making an app for it, or making it "smart" doesn't automatically improve a product.)