Speaking for myself, I am technically competent but lacking the time to invest to find all the pitfalls for simple home network management - I mean really simple.
So I have a growing family and want to
- end my ISP at a router I own and control with say openWRT.
- run cabling to each floor because the wifi turns to dog crap after a few yards indoors
- replace two “smart TVs” that we spend more time fighting probably with computer monitors but all I want is a dumb screen that does what it says
- then tell me what plugs into the hdmi port of that dumb screen? A raspberry pi? What’s it running? Can I use an apple something something - what’s the uo or down side?
- I am not even thinking about turning on light bulbs or central heating yet.
There is a small book or maybe an hour or twos youtube video on this and then I am clicking the affiliate links - but I need to trust the advice .. does it exist?
None of my one-hop trusted people are part of the cancelmob. If I found that somebody two hops away from me did something absurd it's quite easy to do something about it -- apply negative trust to whatever path endorsed that nonsense.
Unfortunately people these days seem allergic to running anything that isn't a web browser or served by an app store, and the entities that control those two channels are extremely unexcited about decentralization.