Wouldn't it make sense for a remote control to need to access local network & devices? Like, without this permission, the only way the controller would work is

Wouldn't it make sense for a remote control to need to access local network & devices? Like, without this permission, the only way the controller would work is through a cloud service, so I would personally be pretty happy to discover the app requests this permission, as it would likely mean the app will keep working when LG inevitably shuts down their cloud server...