The thing is there are tons of "passive" automations that you still might want.
For instance, I left my garage freezer door open, in summer, once. The loss of food almost made me cry (just from the pure waste of it all). I have temp monitors now (external, with probes into fridges and freezers) as well as door sensors. If I am dumb and leave them open, or if they break I'm going to get a notification.
Windows/doors open, and it starts raining, alert... I have a whole set of alerts on when to open the windows too based on season and inside vs outside temp. I have seen a savings on my bills for heating and cooling.
Reminders of all kinds when it's not optimal to run the oven, or appliances because of power costs.
> The loss of food almost made me cry (just from the pure waste of it all). I have temp monitors now (external, with probes into fridges and freezers) as well as door sensors.
You're trying to use technology to handle difficulty with minor adversity.
To each their own, but honestly I wouldn't want any of those. I don't even like that my car has electronic locks and a keyfob, I just couldn't find a used car with mechanical locks/ignition that wasn't likely to be a money pit.
In the age of agents everywhere this is no longer true or viable.
It's going to be hard for them to do it, for historic and legacy code reasons. But it's long past being a choice and now becoming a need.