I hope a family-level AI appliance is a thing later. Local non-cloud assistant that lives in the house, families interact via voice or phones or whatever. Knows the contextual family stuff you need, etc.
We didn't get people buying family-level file servers for the family photo gallery and documents at any real scale, so i doubt we'll see similar for AI especially when the cost is that much higher for GPUs vs an SBC machine.
because nas hardware and software suck and everything else was a poorly executed subscription product...i think one was called helm, another was by early twitter alumni. imagine a home device that manages and maintains itself and is a joy to interact with.
not automatically, but a meaningful step up in ease of use (managing photo/video backup from all family devices) without a subscription would be a solid foundation