There's nothing inevitable about this stuff if you avoid The Cloud from the beginning. Hue
used to be about that, with the app locally controlling everything and the cloud as just an option. Because of that, all of my Hue bulbs will continue to work just fine. I never used their app in the first place.
Keep that same mindset with any whizbang tech, and you'll mostly be alright. Cheap build quality is something else to watch out for, but that infects "dumb" devices just as much.