The most bastardly thing they could do, right? The explanation is that processing costs money, so wifi via cloud only bullshit is getting expensive. Also, we're disabling the only other viable alternative, effectively bricking all remote features intentionally. Why? Fuck you, that's why.

To be honest, I have a Bluetooth kettle and it's kinda pointless, it reliably works only when I'm in the same room, at that point I can just watch the temperature on the 7digit LED display

The process: I'm on the sofa/bed and I want to know if the kettle is done. I open the app and it's "connecting... Connecting...", the spinner spins for minutes until it times out. So I need to get up the lazy ass and go to the kitchen, try again the connection, it takes another 30 seconds. If I did it without the app I would have saved 3-4 minutes of rage. Because anyway it doesn't even allow remote start (for safety, I understand), just remote monitoring. Now I just set a timer on the phone and ignore the app connection

The app is rubbish & always has been so no real loss. But this, disabling a core hardware feature!? Dick move Anova, dick move…