IIRC, there was a Technology Connections YT upload where he was doing some power monitoring. At random an ice cube got stuck in the ice maker and the result was an enormous increase in power consumption.

My family’s present fridge is absolute trash trash too. I wasn’t involved and so someone thought a bottom freezer was the prettiest thing ever; zero common sense physics. It tends to seal poorly on the freezer and makes no warnings, but goes into a weird boot loop over time. I think it is actually the main timer in a microcontroller failing to compensate from overrunning the register because cycling the power via the circuit breaker solves the issue for a few weeks. Anyways, I think there is a case to be made for active power monitoring, though I doubt that is actually implemented on any smart device as it would reveal quality control errors.