Monitors generally don't have remote controls or speakers. The latter solved with soundbar but former is important use case.

Monitors also generally don't come in 60"+ sizes, or if they do, they don't have HDR or other modern video display technologies.

Possibly some hospitality TVs still come as dumb variants but that seems to be changing too.

My company has monitors for video conferencing and they all have remotes and speakers.

I think they are LG's... like this one:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1526262-REG/lg_55ut64...

> LG UT640S 55" Class HDR 4K UHD Commercial Smart IPS LED TV ;)

(Although the key here really is the commercial - different standards of what customers are expected to tolerate there)

Some monitors do have speakers, and not having enough functionality for a remote to be needed is exactly why someone would get a monitor. A remote for a non-smart tv these days would basically be an input control and volume. Everything else would be controlled by some other piece of equipment that would need its own remote/app on your phone.

I used to have a Nintendo WiiU connected up to an old computer monitor with integrated speakers. The WiiU has no volume control of its own, so the only way to change the volume was by going through a series of menus using the crappy unreliable light-sensitive (yes) buttons on the bottom of the display. It was a pain in the neck, and a remote control would have solved that problem nicely.

I have a 4k 43 inch 144hz hdr “gaming” monitor (ROG Strix) and it has a remote. It’s becoming more common now.

And they will eventually have a network connection in a few years...

Samsung seems to be ahead on that one

https://www.samsung.com/ie/monitors/flat/smart-m7-43-inch-sm...

Well depends how do you use it. My DVR set top box has one and I control that to change channels, record etc

Monitors usually don't support HDMI-CEC either.