To allow remote control. Of course this is silly and the real answer is to make you dependent on their app which shows you ads. Also many smaller smart home de

To allow remote control. Of course this is silly and the real answer is to make you dependent on their app which shows you ads. Also many smaller smart home device manufacturers with an app seem to be heading in the direction of wanting to expand into other smart home devices and lock you into their proprietary ecosystem, while the rest of the industry simultaneously seems to move towards more interoperability via things like the Matter protocol, presumably to make it easier to interact with various voice assistants without requiring an individual gateway for each one. This is just another reason to distrust any smart home device that doesn't support ZigBee, Matter, or a similar purpose-built local protocol.