Controversial Viewpoint: Connected Home Automation Kills Creativity​

I think connected home automation, while convenient, is ‍slowly eroding our need to problem-solve and be inventive in our own living spaces. We used to have to figure ⁣out the⁤ best way to arrange furniture for lighting, now we just stick in a smart ⁣bulb. We had to learn about timing and temperature for gardening, now we have automated watering systems.⁣ It seems like we're outsourcing the small, daily creative challenges that used to spark our ingenuity.

Does ⁢anyone else feel like this? I'm ⁤not saying automation is inherently bad,but ‍I wonder if‌ the ease and convenience are unintentionally stifling our creative problem-solving skills. ‍Maybe it frees us up for ⁤bigger creative pursuits, or maybe it just makes us less ‌likely to think outside the box in our immediate⁣ environment.

I'd be interested⁣ to here different perspectives.Are there benefits​ to this "outsourcing" of minor⁤ tasks that ⁢outweigh ​the potential loss of creativity? ⁤Or ‍are we becoming⁢ too ⁢reliant on technology to solve problems⁤ that we⁣ could‍ easily tackle ourselves, and potentially learn something‌ in the process?