[StopDisinfo910]

I mean you can already do exactly that with zigbee after buying a zigbee usb connector which are extremely cheap.

I know because that’s what I have been doing for the past five years.

But to be fair my setup is now mostly IKEA so I guess I could go back to a bridge and stop having to maintain my stuff at some point.

[samoit]

So you need to buy and adapter. With Matter you don't, you can use your regular wifi cards. No new "adapter" needed.

[StopDisinfo910]

What makes you think you will be able to use Thread with a regular wifi card? That's not my impression.

Matter is just the protocol and Matter over Thread is pretty sure to be prefered by everyone over Matter over Wifi because of the power draw.