I don't disagree with your points here. All well made, as usual.

And...people who have decided they need an app on their tiny-snooping-device to - get this - open and close their garage door - might just be asking for this. I mean, really. Who sold you that? Did they have a nice bridge on offer as well?

As with the use, or not, of ad blockers on browsers, people who allow themselves to be treated as 'consumers' and also as 'products' are allowing themselves to be treated that way. There's always been a cost to privacy. In these times, that cost may include opting out of recent IoT technology, or not using it in the first place, or educating oneself on how to allow the absolute minimum privacy invasion.

To put all responsibility on "evil corporations" and/or "failed regulators" makes it too easy for ordinary citizens to abdicate their own responsibility for consequences of their choices, both individual and collective.