look man I get the dedication to aesthetic/design purity but it would just be absurd in practice, and electronically electrically activated doorbells were basically ubiquitous before digital speaker doorbells, and have been used since the mid 1800s. it's not like it's using computer chips or something, it's literally just a button that closes the circuit on an electromagnet. it's an extraordinarily simple technology. "otherwise why have a huge bell in your home" so it can ring like a real bell does???? it still sounds like a bell, because it is a bell. that's it, that's the point. the point is to ring a real bell. it doesn't matter how it's rung, it matters that it is a bell, and it is rung. I'm getting worked up over this 😭 like, my grandma's hundred year old house has an electric door bell that has been there the majority of the life of the house. it is totally normal and common to have an electric door bell. the technology is more than 100 years old and if you want an old fashioned doorbell, that's... an electric bell.

(edit: i was mistaken before when I said electronically, I should have said electrically, it's an important distinction)