Investors don't want to invest in only HW. They want their MRR. This is all just going to get worse. We'll start seeing everything coming with built in cellular soon.
Luckily thats never gonna happen in Germany. At least not with a mandatory connection. The cellular coverage is way to bad for that. My parents live in a smaller village. The Dishwasher would have to stand on the upper balcony to get a network connection.
The cell modems I've worked with are able to maintain a connection to the network even with a terminating resistor in place of an antenna, and that is from the middle of a cattle ranch 8 miles from the tower. You basically need to go full faraday cage...
