As a software engineer I can see why you say that but as a consumer you have to ask yourself, who does a product that is designed to be reliant on the cloud benefit? Wifi routers with mesh existed before and will continue to exist after the onhub and they don’t require a cloud connection, so it seems like the cloud connection was designed to mostly benefit Google.

As a consumer, especially a tech savvy one we should continue to push tech companies to build products that last and serve the user and not just throw our hands up and say “we have the wrong expectations”

Strawman.

I bought a router. I never expect any router to stop working because the manufacturer flips a switch.

Fair point. Though there's no denying that people only buy this sort of remotely controlled device either because they have no choice or because they expect support for the functionalities they need will last about as long as the hardware itself. At this point this is almost always not the case.

At least they could just release the server-side code when they've had enough, but they don't even want to do that.