Why does working consistently like an appliance require the OS provider to know the state of your device at all times? Our appliances have functioned well for d

Why does working consistently like an appliance require the OS provider to know the state of your device at all times? Our appliances have functioned well for decades without this capability and clearly don't need this senseless data collection for the sake of data hoarding. Yet every manufacturer of every product is jamming it in wherever they can. Fridges, cars, dildos, you name it, it's got telemetry or people trying to implement it. It is simple, data is becoming worth something because you now have the ability to analyze all the data you could ever collect. And so, everybody naturally jumps on the wagon because of the inherent profit motive. If a computer was an appliance, you would buy it and it would never need to phone home. Now we both know that there is some need for updates and it might therefore be a good idea to classify computers as something other than appliances.