The convenience isn’t worth the downside. It’s just a gaping security hole and data sink for corporations to suck from. Eventually the company will stop supporting the product and you’re stuck having to use an outdated app and maintain your own copy (if that’s allowed). You can roll your own system, but then all that work is placed on you, and for what kind of convenience? To remotely control devices or sync states to provide a minor convenience when it works and a major headache when it does not?
The convenience isn’t worth the downside. It’s just a gaping security hole and data sink for corporations to suck from. Eventually the company will stop supporting the product and you’re stuck having to use an outdated app and maintain your own copy (if that’s allowed). You can roll your own system, but then all that work is placed on you, and for what kind of convenience? To remotely control devices or sync states to provide a minor convenience when it works and a major headache when it does not?