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I view them as a new and separate product.
The regular lights, the "big light" as my neurodivergent friends call them, are normal bulbs with electroc-mechanical dimmers. The bulbs still burn out, the dimmers still break, and sometimes the power goes out entirely in storms or for maintenance, but in general they are pretty reliable. But I need to get up and manually actuate the switch to turn it on or off.
The smart lights are luxury lights and plugged into floor or table lamps. They set the mood and the tone. I've never liked the modes where they change color or brightness automatically, but I do like the ability to make the house green on St. Patrick's day, or make certain rooms red, orange, or purple for Halloween. Or sometimes just whatever mood we want to go for. Being in lamps, that makes it easy to do things like reset them or just manually turn the electricity off if they are misbehaving.
I would prefer if they were on an open-source locally-hosted software. When I first did my investigation a few years ago there were a couple of projects in their infancy so maybe I need to look again.