I'm super excited about this - 1 because it makes me believe apple is taking the smart home seriously and 2 because in theory it means faster and more reliable smart home networks
A. Stops assigning my 2018 HomePods as the home hub, which they are incapable of doing as they cannot act as Thread routers, so whenever they get elected to lead the reliability of scene changes and automations go down the tubes.
B. Rewrite/redesign the Home app to not be a colossal pile of garbage. It's awful on the iPhone, worse on the iPad, barely functional on the Watch, and a complete joke on the Mac.