I don’t disagree.

With each iteration and replacement I’m discovering there’s more out there.

For example instead of using a random computer or pi, installing a home assistant yellow presents to a future home owner as more of an appliance.

https://www.home-assistant.io/yellow/

This is a nice gateway for non technical but “I can find someone to help me with this system”.

Same goes for particular groups of hardware.

You’re night it’s a mix but the fact you can run most things on one platform fairly easily is pretty useful.

For myself HA has been the best thing since, like, forever. I personally love it, if not obvious. The hardware part is still complicated because of this pull-down stuff and just a mix of randomness as everyone is developing all kinds of things to do "stuff". HA ties it together enough to be useful and more. Just this morning I was thinking it's really cool I can try to correlate my waking with CO2/humidity levels and what happens when the furnace runs? For the curious, having furnace run helps everything