Anyone seen/worked with the new Arduino Nano Matterand/or the Matter home automation standard?

Anyone seen/worked with the new Arduino Nano Matter: https://store.arduino.cc/pages/nano-matter and/or the Matter home automation standard? going to be doing a class on it in January and the Nano Matter's big feature is that it's set up to work with this standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard) - I'm still early in my research, but it seems Matter is meant to allow IoT things by companies like Amazon and Google to play nicely together. This seems good in a way, as it's supposed to be an open standard. OTOH, I don't (yet) understand what the advantage is over using a WiFi protocol as that is really, really common already. Also it seems like you need to use certain hubs with it, but maybe we will see things develop over time.

Arduino Official Store

Arduino Nano Matter

Enjoy your new automated home

Matter (standard)

Matter is a freely available connectivity standard for smart home and IoT (Internet of Things) devices. It aims to improve interoperability and compatibility between different manufacturers and security, and always allowing local control as an option. Matter originated in December 2019 as the Project Connected Home over IP (or CHIP for short) wo...