> I think you do actually want those.

No, I rather know I do not.

> It's quite amazing to receive a notification from your dryer that it finished its cycle.

It’s really quite useless to me.

What I may want is an ODB so I can plug in whatever external observation and possibly control plane I wish, were I so inclined (I am not), and could make my device smart. Hell for a dryer you could probably have a plug or panel feeding into HA and send an alert based on load.

Anything that’s “smart” out of the box is rife for abuse and will eventually sink into that.