A lot of houses these days barely even have e26 base bulbs any more. I redid most of the lighting in my house a few years ago and I think of the 60 or so fixtures I have in the house, only about 10 of them use e26 bulbs (mostly vanities and a few exterior lights). The rest are either wafer LEDs, GU10, or smaller base bulbs.
As for smart switches, I've used the TP-Link/Kasa stuff and it has been great, but I've basically only used the plugs. I never really found much use for the switches themselves. I hate using my phone to control electronics when there's an easily accessible switch, and I've never bothered with voice controls. Having a centralized hardware control of all the lights would be kind of cool, but I set something like that up at my parents with a Nest Hub and it's kind of clunky all things considered.
Also, not all of my switch boxes have a neutral wire, so those ones wouldn't have worked with most smart switches anyway (Caseta gets around that though).
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