I guess I haven't seen many people doing 'useful things' with home automation tools despite how they've proliferated. It all seems like change for the sake of i

I guess I haven't seen many people doing 'useful things' with home automation tools despite how they've proliferated. It all seems like change for the sake of itself, rather than for genuine benefit (aggregate time savings, less stress etc). Standard home tasks that take up the majority of time in my experience are (time quantity decreasing) cleaning, re-organization/shelving, cooking, laundry and managing maintenance. Flipping switches and queuing entertainment items are negligible. I have yet to see a 'smart home' system that changes this calculus (aside from the humble robot vacuum) and even then, I see very few people that are able to keep spaces uncluttered enough between 0 and 4 inches above the floor for a robot vacuum to actually do a better job than the human with a vacuum in any reasonable amount of time. I agree we don't need in-home consultants or a monolithic bureaucracy. I just don't think people are ready to hyper-optimize their existence enough for automation to be truly game-changing in the home. Maybe without kids or a partner, but definitely not with.