[alias_neo]

> I hope Matter begins to make local-first a bigger priority as well.

As of today, Matter is still basically junk.

I recently bought some Matter smart plugs; I wanted the matter ones to test out Matter and see if it was worth investing more into since I have a SkyConnect in dual-mode.

I paid _double_ for smart plugs with Matter support, only to find that when connected via matter they're just dumb switches; none of the advertised energy monitoring functionality works. When I asked around on the HA Discord channels about _why_, it turns out that the Matter spec doesn't yet support things like energy monitoring.

Until the spec becomes actually useful, it's just a waste of money that will give you fewer features than the device might actually support.