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You're still paying for the components, so an out-of-box dumb TV would be cheaper (we saw this when smart TV's first launched, they were ~$30-40 more then the dumb versions). You still are at the mercy of whatever board/OS gets installed. And Microsoft is constantly trying to force users to make an online account to use the PC, it's only a matter of time before TV makers require WIFI to do initial setup. Plus there's ways to still get online, like if they partner with Xfinity who use customer routers (the ones that get rented) for others to use... stuff like that would eb all to easy to do. Or heck, partner with Amazon. They deliver everywhere, so the trucks are driving around, there's ways they could auto join you to a network.
The "just don't" doesn't send a message other than "we need to try harder because we need to steal that data". Stop buying TVs is the only message that might work.