They're skating where the puck is. Realistically, even iot wall sockets and switch controllers are now a well served market. Is there any electrical appliance

They're skating where the puck is. Realistically, even iot wall sockets and switch controllers are now a well served market. Is there any electrical appliance that has no merit being externally controllable, and thus a potential data source? We'd need Synology to gain way more market power than Apple and Google (and Xiaomi and every other global makers) to get a full user managed hub instead of the cloud first approach we have now.