I only tried Node-Red, it was good enough that I felt no need for AppDaemon, even though as a programmer it probably is even easier than Node Red. One huge pro

I only tried Node-Red, it was good enough that I felt no need for AppDaemon, even though as a programmer it probably is even easier than Node Red. One huge problem with YAML compared with Node Red is the turnaround, node-red restarts blazingly fast. HA, not so much....