I'm basically in agreement with you; while I've seen some good use cases for HA, much of it is indeed falling into some other camp (even the person who needed i

I'm basically in agreement with you; while I've seen some good use cases for HA, much of it is indeed falling into some other camp (even the person who needed it to have a single place to adjust the 18 lamps in their basement; it is a bit of a luxury to have 18 separate lights in a room). However, are you sure that resources are scarce? It seems to me we are rather too good at extracting them and turning them into commodities.