The smart home has been broken for over a decade. From day one the goal was always to lock in users to an ecosystem and invade their privacy. Actually providing useful and reliable products didn’t even register as a goal.

The one way to do decent home automation is with locally run He Assistant and Zigbee or Z-Wave. It should only rely on the Internet for resources that are truly non-local like weather reports.

Thread/Matter might also be becoming an option. At this point I’m still watching to see what they do with it.