> people die when they incapacitate their smoke detectors because of false alarms that can't be silenced any other way.

Not sure nest would win if it was easier to disable. Have you ever had a smoke alarm that goes off every couple hours? You can't sleep. Doesn't matter if you can turn it off with a wave.

And let's say you reach the point where you instinctively wave so it doesn't bother your sleep, now what happens when there's a fire?

False alarms are the problem. From the video and reports, it appears the Nest Protect has real problems with this.