A remote server should not be an absolute prerequisite for a doorbell to function. That feels like complete nonsense. Like sure, the fancy cloud features should

A remote server should not be an absolute prerequisite for a doorbell to function. That feels like complete nonsense. Like sure, the fancy cloud features should fail, but there is no reason that it shouldn't continue to operate in a degraded state like say, only making a noise indicating someone pressed it. If you have hardware sophisticated enough to interact with an API it should also be sufficiently powerful to do operations we could successfully do locally with much more primitive electronics. I hope I never have a toaster that's too stupid to count to 4 minutes without connecting to a lambda.