Great story. Well, I didn’t actually read Jackson’s whole story (I’m lazy), but just the gist of it that his doorbell failed b/c his Amazon acct got into a bad state says enough. My lazy ass only skimmed through your page as well, as in my case it’s preachin’ to the choir.
But I agree calling IoT appliances “smart” is revolting and I reject it. And I think the problem with the early catch phrase (“Internet of Shit”) is that it’s too eccentric to hook the normies who really need to give some thought to this. So I quite like the idea of calling them “dependent”, as the terminology might take hold where it needs to.
BTW, you should not link to #medium.com. Your audience does not appreciate the #enshitifcation of that site, but would rather have scribe.rip URLs.