This is frankly very upsetting. If I could reasonably live without remote control, I would after hearing this news today. Unfortunately It's not practical for me. To end home control is a small environmental disaster. Tens (and probably hundreds) of thousands of perfectly fine thermostat installations to the trash.
To boot, effectively a forced payment for new gens, while putting fear that gen 3s (2015?) are soon to come, of which I just bought 12 not long ago.
My god. I'm about done with the Google ecosystem.
