If this was the 90s or early 2000s I might agree more. But these days I really can't. I have network devices over a decade old, they still work great and are us

If this was the 90s or early 2000s I might agree more. But these days I really can't. I have network devices over a decade old, they still work great and are useful, and my computer itself that I still play modern games on is also over a decade old. Sure there is newer faster stuff, but I don't need or really have much of any use for that. A thermostat isn't gaining anything useful with faster networking or processing or any of that because what it already had was already way beyond any use case.