They did the same with their universal remotes. Fucking dead in this housre

I get no longer supporting products, but bricking them?

I think what's happening in the background here is these "Internet of Trash" devices hook to cloud infrastructure for which the business no longer wants to pay.

If they were interested in actually building something useful, they would open up their API layers and add a way to link them to different services. But since they don't give a fuck about you as a customer, they plan poorly as a business, and they have no ability to produce well-engineered software, instead they code everything so that it is hopelessly coupled (probably through hard-coded things up to and including certificates) with specific garbage they made, make it impossible to move to anything else, and then brick your shit.

Nest bricked my security system (after magically installing Assistant on it [oh by the way it has an undocumented microphone]), at least they gave you $100... in gift cards to the fucking google store. Logitech isn't even that smart.

Can't brick my G500 and my Z5500s. Best in class, approaching decades old at this point.

But as with every company, profits over quality. Fuck em.