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For the people who can't be bothered to deal with ZigBee or zwave, the wifi is always connected to the Internet. Which means that those devices are possible threat vectors.
If you could properly configure a vlan to isolate your untrusted iot devices you would also be entirely capable of configuring a zwave or ZigBee mesh network.
I've built my own esphome sensors and have tasmota compatible devices (Shelly, I endorse all of their tasmota capable devices), but the use case is different.
There are different tools for different jobs, that's why we have these different standards. It's not about fracturing markets or some other capitalist end goal, it's about having the right tool for the job. Wifi ain't it.
The only fundamental difference between wifi and the other protocols is they support lower bandwidths like 1 MHz instead of wifi's 20 MHz and have some related low-power radio stuff. Wi-Fi does have a low bandwidth version in Wi-Fi HaLow but it doesn't seem like it's getting adoption yet.
IoT devices just need to be developed to be more secure. There's not really a way around that. And home routers should have an easy way to block their internet or something. No need for entirely separate hardware and protocols.