I filled my home with smart bulbs when I should've bought this instead

When I started wiring my house for smart lighting, bulbs felt like the safe bet. You screw them in, pair them in the app, and you're done. I ended up buying piles of them, and my wallet noticed. Fast forward three years: the dimmer switches I tacked on almost as a side project are what run my house now, and the bulbs are the part I babysit. Later I patched the worst bulb headaches without touching a single fixture. The cheaper fix, though, had been in front of me the entire time. Skipping it cost a few hundred dollars and a couple of genuinely annoying years.