[Gigachad]

Anything connected to the internet or integrated with 3rd party systems will have to be maintained regularly forever. Anything that is self contained will last forever.

Main reason I avoid buying anything that requires an app. Because one day that app won't be maintained anymore and it just wont work, bricking the hardware in the process.

[killerstorm]

Well, kind of, but I'd think over 30 years people would notice this problem and figure out how to factor out "internet" part from business logic part. (And you might want formal verification / memory safety / etc, so you can accept arbitrary inputs.)

But on contrary, business incentive is to make "everything app" which needs to be continuously patched.