See the latest video starting around the four minute mark. Kris is suggesting that all that SMART stuff will now be automatically triggered / executed and hence sysadmins will no longer have to do it themselves.
This is, IMHO, a very different comms strategy than what we heard initially. If only iXsystems had emphasized that SMART GUI scheduling was becoming obsolete because the appliance would do so automatically, etc.?
But why then the note that they’d automatically convert extant smart schedules into cron jobs? That makes zero sense if user-set SMART scans / tests are no longer needed.
Going down unrelated anecdotal SMART rabbit holes like “I’ve had bad disks live and allegedly-good disks die” is also unhelpful.
One cannot help but get the impression that management is batting cleanup without wanting to admit that they could have done a lot better.