This is definitely on the horizon and future generations won’t even be aware of a time when you didn’t pay a subscription for every aspect of life. (TikTok screencap)
“smart” stuff [...] these tech
That's why picking the right tech matters. My heuristic is that if you need a proprietary app, it's NOT going to be on your term, hard pass.
If you do need some connectivity, it's also probably bad.
If you do not need connectivity and it's interoperable via standards then and only then maybe it can be good.