I had similar experience. They pushed people out of text files into the Paper UI and some DB. And I was constantly fighting the configuration. Moved to Home A

I had similar experience. They pushed people out of text files into the Paper UI and some DB. And I was constantly fighting the configuration. Moved to Home Assistant, and so far it is good (but they also try to force usage of UI and some DB instead of pure and simple text files, which is again annoying).