[bdcravens]

Being old enough to straddle the manual and the automated world (48 this year), but absolutely loving technology (so I feel I haven't entered my "get off my lawn" era yet), I find myself looking for ways to augment, not replace. Of course, that's as much working in technology for 20+ years (and knowing how it's not magic and how things can fail) as much as it's good sense lol.

[Aurornis]

> I find myself looking for ways to augment, not replace.

This is how most people operate and prefer their products (Learned from years in the smarthome industry).

You can find simple products where all the controls are inexplicably moved into a phone and they’re generally not well liked. It makes sense for something that augments the phone (e.g. playing music through Sonos) but it doesn’t make sense when you have to use your phone to do things that should have been controls on the device. The latter group is universally despised and products like that never do well.

There’s a growing technology backlash where some people pretend like every smart device is dumb and useless, but they’re almost always fixated on that group of devices that doesn’t do well. They ignore the devices that people actually like because those would invalidate their stance that technology integrations are bad.