The general human in 2021 who buys IoT gear puts it on their Wifi and goes back to other things.Fallacy of the "general human" aside...how do you configure it? How do you configure your Wifi in the first place?
The app- and service-centric world that people have been forced into by the laziness of developers, the desire for surveillance data, and the deprecation of browser features, is the worst of all possible worlds.
Devices have full network connectivity, so that security camera you bought becomes part of a botnet, hacks your laptop, and installs ransomware or steals your financial info/bitcoin wallet. Companies control your house and your data, so when they disappear, or when Nest pushes out a bad firmware update, your devices (and your thermostat!) stop working.
Technology is realizing only a small fraction of its promise, and rather than empowering people, is acting as just another set of shackles that binds people to the whims of the powerful. The best instruments for changing that, namely web browsers and truly independent, user-owned devices, are being destroyed one small step at a time.
So, in 2021, the question stands, and you've made no attempt to answer it -- how is any device supposed to break out of this sinkhole and restore the power of technology, if browsers block local devices' UIs, and users can't even configure the device without the blessing of Google or Apple?
