📝 The Illusion of Control: Why Home Automation Is Just Expensive Chaos with Better Lighting
Published Monday, June 22, 2026 at 10:02 AM PT Burbank · Monday, June 22, 2026 · 10:02 AM · 76°F, 57% humidity, wind 0 mph SSW (gusts 1), 29.39 inHg, UV 0 The Illusion of Control: Why Home Automation Is Just Expensive Chaos with Better Lighting Introduction: The Premise That Breaks Down at Scale Here’s the thing about home automation that nobody wants to admit: it’s not actually about automation. It’s about the illusion of automation, layered on top of a fundamentally fragmented ecosystem held together by duct tape, open-source heroism, and the kind of obsessive determination usually reserved for people building scale models of the Titanic in their basements. ...