It's still going to be a pleasant getaway, just one requiring much more effort during set up to configure it in a long-term sustainable way.
> There is just so much passivity now.
For anyone interested there is a large, active online community around the open-source Home Assistant platform. I'm using it and the community has been a terrific resource for finding those still too-rare devices which both work well and are willing to work sans-cloud. There are thousands of contributors and hundreds of thousands of HA users now and together we comprise a market large enough for even low-cost Asian manufacturers to notice and start targeting products toward.
> There is just so much passivity now.
For anyone interested there is a large, active online community around the open-source Home Assistant platform. I'm using it and the community has been a terrific resource for finding those still too-rare devices which both work well and are willing to work sans-cloud. There are thousands of contributors and hundreds of thousands of HA users now and together we comprise a market large enough for even low-cost Asian manufacturers to notice and start targeting products toward.