My desktop, which has everything accumulated over more than 30 years, has 955,433 ATM. The other 10 running systems, all Arch Linux as well, have 200k-250k each.

I recently ditched my X10 stuff and got a Hubitat. I refuse to use anything that requires "cloud" and I"m pretty darn happy with Hubitat. They do have free (so far) cloud services should you want them and they are required for some functions like geofencing, hub firmware updates and such, but all processing is done on locally on the Hubitat. I recently chided them because the Hubitat tries to check in with a couple sites and there is no switch to make it stop. However, I block those sites with Pi-hole and added a rule on my firewall (which I have to temporarily disable to get updates) that blocks the hub from accessing the Internet. The user community is vibrant and very helpful with questions.There are a LOT of user-contributed apps of all kinds. I think anyone with home automation interest should at least evaluate Hubitat. https://hubitat.com/

There is no such law. You're just another leftie who doesn't let the facts get it the way and why anybody would listen to YOU is beyond me.