the other thing not enough people are talking about is how even what should be genuinely new and exciting tech is instead shackled to some mandatory internet-of-shit account, which makes it nigh impossible to care about. you might say that it's just the techy crowd who care about that, but i'm pretty sure the consumer industry relies on us to try these products out and then enthuse about them to our friends and family, and personally i've been doing just the opposite.