I just found out that my mother has 6 or 7 gigantic moving boxes full of incandescent bulbs in her self storage container.

She tells me they will be needed once the led bulb conspiracy fails. And that they will be worth a lot of money, enough to pay for her retirement.

I can't even

including adding Wi-Fi circuits to make them smart bulbs

That's how you can get your very own botnet, courtesy of some guy in China. Most of these shitty IoT crap never get any updates, and will probably serve most of their life as easy access points into your LAN.

Here we heat our homes 70% of the year, I wonder, does that mean the heat was not a energy loss during that time?

honestly I'd rather a sort of dumb bulb that has dynamically changeable RBG and color temp settings but no wireless features and receives marching orders form a central smart home computer, versus the currently available solutions. I mean there isn't an Ethernet port at every light socket but I don't just want to litter my home with cybersecurity nightmare, proprietary, not easily interoperable random IOT trash.

I'd rather the hardware scattered around be as dumb as possible to do the fun stuff and be only connected to one general purpose computer I can configure and control to my liking. I can keep one PC up to date versus dozens of light bulbs and whatnot, I can insist on fully FOSS so the NSA isn't spying on me through my fucking light bulbs, I can remotely control it with SSH, etc.

you'd have to make an open standard for home wiring to make it work (can we have ethernet in every room for general purpose usage too while we're at it?) but one could jerry rig something with ethernet over power line I'm sure

This decision is about the energy efficiency of the bulbs. Incandescent bulbs turn almost all the energy they consume into infrared light and heat. LEDs turn most of the energy they use into light.

Technology Connections just released a video about this. Those 100 year bulbs (and long lasting ones) used more energy and produced too little light to be useful for a majority of people.

Technology Connections: Long Lasting Bulbs

Luckily for you, technology connection’s latest video goes into great detail as to why calling lightbulbs an example of planned obsolescence is definitely not accurate: https://youtu.be/zb7Bs98KmnY

The bulbs work for longer, but they require more power to use.

So far i have never replaced any LED bulbs, and the oldest ones i have are 15+ years old.

LED strips though, where a single dead led can bring down the whole strip, are absolutely a non sensical idea.

I don't believe heat lamps are covered by this. Just bulbs for making visible light

There are LED bulbs rated for this. I've got several in fixtures like that.

I use all LEDs in my home and aside from the dollar store LEDs lasting less long in 2 bulb enclosures, all the ones in the ceiling boob lights are doing fine. I recently got better bulbs that as a nice bonus are a warm color temperature and I'll see how they do. the nicer LEDs have circuity that can reduce their output to reduce heat output if they detect they're being cooked from what I understand