I have several smart plugs from TP-Link that I e.g. use to turn on and off the lights in an aquarium. While they work fine in general they sometimes have weird

I have several smart plugs from TP-Link that I e.g. use to turn on and off the lights in an aquarium. While they work fine in general they sometimes have weird glitches where they turn on the light during the night or don't turn it on during the day, so you come into the room at 4 am and the lights are on, or you wonder why the lights are off at 3 pm. Never found out why they do it and no solution so far. I also have several mechanical plug-in timer switches from Theben, some of which have been working flawlessly for almost 10 years, without any software. So given my experience with these "smart" plugs and the fact that the particular models I've bought have already been obsoleted after only two years I would be very skeptical about placing more such smart tech into my home. Dumb electronics are less problematic, so if I can have a system that is mostly dumb but has some central interface for automation I'd be fine with that. I would never buy a fully integrated smart home system where each individual component is smart though.