I’ve become annoyed with “smart home” because the reliability is so bad. About 20% of the time the light doesn’t turn on or off. I’ve used Alexa with Feit and

I’ve become annoyed with “smart home” because the reliability is so bad. About 20% of the time the light doesn’t turn on or off. I’ve used Alexa with Feit and Phillips Hue for about 4 years and Apple HomePod for about a year. At least once a day, I get an error message like “Oops, I had a problem with that.” Apple seems worse about this. It sometimes works by calling the other with the same command. It always works when using the app on my phone. I expect 100% reliability. The same as my light switch. The light switch works every time. I also don’t like how chatty they are. I can’t turn off the voice confirmations with Apple. I don’t want it to tell me that it turned on the lights. I laugh imagining a Star Trek episode where the computer responds as shittily as our current state of smart homes.