Yeah. It would have been a lot better to have a "dumb" electromechanical meter, that cannot detect disconnects that, under certain conditions, could burn your house down. Gee, who needs a house anyway? /s
I lived a long long time without a smart meter and did just fine and have changed out mains many times over many years without incident. Never burned one house from a disconnect.
I just don’t see how we could have possibly lived this long without smart meters and computers and microprocessors and IT and electronics engineers. /s
From where I sit it created a lot of useless jobs out of thin air.
You’re wrong on this one and you miss the bigger points.
There is no reason whatsoever for a lineman to show up at someone’s house and give the homeowner’s hell over working on their breaker panel or their in-home electrical system. I know several homeowners that pack heat and would gladly put the fear of God into such an a-hole lineman. He’s lucky to be alive. It was intrusive and none of his business period.