I was shocked to hear they turned such an easily replaceable tool into a bloated pile of adware. Such behavior is hostile to developers in a way that calls into question all of their other choices, including those they will make in the future.

Source code is a crown jewel for an IoT device, and they have opened a door for potential exploitation and exfiltration right where the sausage gets made. This tool has absolutely no business talking to the network for any reason, but now it downloads and displayed ads from potential third party sources (that the user cannot fully control and probably does want to not trust). What an unimaginably bad security decision. And they expect us to trust them with an IoT infrastructure?

As a direct consequence of this strategy, I have started to actively steer my IoT customers away from their offering, because I feel this move demonstrated that their stack should not be trusted.