Google, Apple, and Amazon have shown everyone they're going to censor speech they don't approve of.
So who still wants to have a 'smart home' where all of your major appliances are connected to the internet and controlled by the department of truth?
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Who wanted to in the first place? How much real convenience did that stuff provide? Take agency, including physical agency over your life.
Based on the number of products on store shelves, quite a few people.
Heading into the 2019 holiday season, I saw $160 "smart mugs" that were wifi enabled and controlled the temperature of your coffee through a phone app. I wondered at the time if that was some sort of high water mark for ridiculous electronic devices.
I know and I get the allure. However, I am 51 and grew up reading and watching science fiction and think Idiocracy should have win an Academy Award. I appreciate labor saving technology, I do. At some point though the it just leads to physical and (more importantly) mental atrophy.
It's a first world thing. People in a wealthy society will actually buy the stuff and accept the planned obsolescence that means you have to buy a new one in 8 years because it won't support the OS updates.
The main reason is probably because "this is what they told us the future would look like".