Thank you for putting down your thoughts here, especially 1, 2, and 3. It is messy. Some of my criticisms of HA are absolutely not their fault, and users shou

Thank you for putting down your thoughts here, especially 1, 2, and 3. It is messy. Some of my criticisms of HA are absolutely not their fault, and users should realize the state of devices. It's very common for HA to report a false state of a switch. However, if the switch is report "yes, I have turned the light on" but the actual mechanism in the switch to start and stop electricity is not working, what's HA, or any hub for that matter, supposed to do? The quality of the devices highly matters, and the truth it, a lot of them are cheaply made junk with no or few alternatives. Home automation is very, very far from "just works" and people getting into it need to jump in with their eyes open instead of falling for hype.