the humor went over my head. I wrote about Lifx in response to this question:
As in... we already have WiFi bulbs that don't need Internet and are controlled 100% locally. So, Yes, we talk directly to specific WiFi bulbs. The knee jerk reaction to "WiFi" is of course due to the preponderance of overlap between WiFi devices requiring Cloud... it's the cloud portion we react negatively to, not the WiFi element specifically, There's little doubt that someone could reverse engineer the WiFi communications on any of these devices, but the juice isn't worth the squeeze. 60 hours of research to create a driver that works for 11 people with 101hrs of follow on: "just one more thing, please."
Bottom line then is.. if a device has a local API, and uses cloud as a convenience for sales, then yea, a driver will be created by someone with the need/interest.