I also find this very irritating, especially as I have just bought one of the new Sonos Amps to power four ceiling speakers in my newly renovated house. Had I known about this I would not have further invested in Sonos. I did consider the upgrade route but 30% off RRP and losing one of my Sonos Connects which works perfectly well was not tempting when it could be found for a sale price even on the Sonos website.
I suppose keeping the legacy products on a separate network if Sonos explain how to do this will be an option for a while and then I will just gradually move to another brand.
Like most people I started using Sonos to stream FLACs from my NAS which if I am honest with myself, even with my Bridge product, never worked very well. Streaming from Spotify works better but it sounds like that's what we will lose first, unless it's more the IoT functionality that I'm not interested in anyway.
Apparently the share price has gone down by 2% already.
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