If I wanted to chat with someone pretending to be interested in me I could just answer the door when salesmen come knocking.
In any case the point I was making was more about how the technology we are allowed is not in our service. This was just a use case where having a trustworthy service would be nice, but is impossible.
I do agree with your main point, just not for this device. I think this device breaks expectations for socialization in a weird way.
But I am dismayed that it is a cloud device, I am dismayed by all cloud devices, and I am dismayed by people who happily buy it all. I don't know what I'm going to do next time I buy a car, for example.