I'm excited. But I really have no idea if it will be good or bad. I'm sure devices will be phoning home, but I can accept that. What worries me is that they m

I'm excited. But I really have no idea if it will be good or bad. I'm sure devices will be phoning home, but I can accept that. What worries me is that they might brick themselves if the server goes down. Either intentionally, as a "This device can't get security updates so we won't let you use it" thing, or accidentally, as in "Oops, we never actually tested this feature without internet, sorry the lights are stuck on disco mode till you fix that". Hopefully nobody will actually rely on direct device to server stuff, and Matter will standardize local versions of everything that might otherwise be done with the server. And hopefully they don't phone home so much that the whole thing just becomes untrusted by the tech savvy crowd and disappears entirely. I would have been fine with ZigBee, but if this gets as big as they want it to, the switch will be worth it. I'm still hopeful. The name is awful though. Couldn't it be WebMatter or something? Can we stop naming things after ungoogleable common words?