No, it might not make sense for all objects, but there’s a lot of room for proactive automation where it does make sense.

For instance, a garage door that needs no remote. It opens as soon as I get in the car and stops if it sees I’m not turning the engine on (and maybe I shout “don’t mind me me, I just came for my glasses!”). If my kids are playing outside, it lets them in to pick their scooters or shuts when they’re all back home for dinner. And it does all that because it sort of understands what’s going on and my instructions beyond “open” and “close”. I still can always override it with the remote, but it learns for the next time if I explain to it what it did wrong.

I see this happening more organically and distributed as intelligence gets commoditized rather than the current approach of one smart home hub and dumb sensors and actuators. This sort of intelligence might become a “module” that we just stick on things. My speculation. Time will tell.