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Stories like this are why I've never really found the concept of a smart home appealing. I'm perfectly content to do it all analog, but hopefully there's an alternative out there for folks who think differently than I do.
There are very good and fairly easy solutions for self hosting smart home functionality. Im using homeassistant which runs locally on my own hardware, and all my smart functionality is controlled locally so it works even without internet. And should my server crash, everything just defaults to normal "dumb" control.