Honda paywalls its garage door opener

At some point, this stops being “innovation” and starts being a toll booth.

Honda has taken a feature that used to be a single dumb button press: open garage, go inside, live your life, and turned it into an app, a login, a piece of hardware, and a subscription, because apparently even arriving home now needs a payment plan.

From convenient to annoying, monthly subscription services have risen beyond their convenience and straig…