I feel for customers impacted by this but hate that the only real choices customers have are local, but expensive, equipment or affordable, but outsourced equip

I feel for customers impacted by this but hate that the only real choices customers have are local, but expensive, equipment or affordable, but outsourced equipment. This is endemic in the home automation space. Nearly everything is made and operated on Chinese soil. Like security cameras, or, in my case, our LiDAR and camera augmented robot vacuums. Some components, like lights and switches, have (very) expensive American alternatives. Some support ZigBee or Matter and can be controlled locally. Many many others require cloud infrastructure operated outside of the US and become bricks without it. I would love to see the US mandate ITAR for all IoT devices sold in the US. If anything, that will help prop up local alternatives like Matter since that will be way cheaper than building compliant cloud-connexted devices.