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I'm OK with it for some things tbh. With a wifi fridge for example I can know if it stops working and the temp starts rising before I have a fridge full of spoiled food. With an oven I can know if I left the house with it still running. With the washer/dryer I can get notified when I need to fold the cloths before they get wrinkled. I think connected appliances have more useful applications than people give them credit for.
Something that might happen once in ten years isn't worth the additional security surface exposure. IMO
What security exposure? Any modern router has a way to isolate iot devices. I'm risking people knowing when I open my fridge?
Most people wouldn't bother.
And the risk would be more a foothold into your network as a staging point to attack other devices, as I'm sure you know .