Harmonisation of Circles of Hell
If having a unified standard helps connect anything and everything to my local server, such as a Raspberry Pi, then I am all in favour of it.
I don't have a problem using IoT to send temperature readings and what not directly to my server, my programs logging that data or even commanding other IoT things to do something. If that's not your cup of tea, then walk on by, I wouldn't force that upon you.
But anything which needs the cloud or wants to tunnel out through my router can fuck right off.