[danimal88]

It is pretty outrageous that a company who purports to care about the environment turned this into a pile of garbage for the average user to save on some cloud hosting or devops. Or even worse, to sell the next generation.

[skybrian]

It's not e-waste unless for some reason you want to throw out a working thermostat just because it doesn't have network access.

[emodendroket]

Probably for the same reason you bought one in the first place rather than using the cheap one that your home already had.