I despise the modern "smart" device and actively look for "dumb" things, but if it's going to have a BLE chip in it, it needs to be updateable to fix vulnerabilities. There are mountains of devices from earlier years that are basically wide open radios now because of this.
Personally I'd much rather the damn thing just have a built-in display with hardware controls.
This reminds of the 2005: "phones shouldn't support texting. people should just call" vibes.