My old early/mid 90's washer Maytag dryer set was starting to fall apart few years ago so they were replaced with an LG washer and dryer set with WiFi. The only

My old early/mid 90's washer Maytag dryer set was starting to fall apart few years ago so they were replaced with an LG washer and dryer set with WiFi. The only use I can ever envision a washer needing WiFi for is telling me the remaining time and when the cycle is done. Before I even connected the WiFi I did some research to see if the washer/dryer could be monitored from a 3rd party app. Nope. The washer has to talk to an LG server. So I poke around some more and find that there is an API for LG appliances, cool right? Nope. You need to be a "valued partner." Apparently paying $2000 for the two machines is not valued by LG. In the end the washer and dryer remain dumb appliances because I control MY appliances. Go die in a fire LG. And that goes for every other IoT e-waste manufacturer.