It's black and white to me in the sense that I don't like the idea of something that I buy to clean my carpets having a NIC inside of it. Even if I don't opt-in

It's black and white to me in the sense that I don't like the idea of something that I buy to clean my carpets having a NIC inside of it. Even if I don't opt-in to enabling certain features, I'm not comfortable paying for the hardware and having a device in my home that is even capable of sending data about my private living space to some remote server. It reminds me of that time a bought a dust collector called a "Playstation 4" and it required me to connect it to the Internet before I could use it. I almost returned it for that very reason. Not everything needs to be connected to a network.