This is one of the many reasons why I decided to go with bulbs that have Zigbee support. They can be controlled by other software. I bought a FEIT electric bulb

This is one of the many reasons why I decided to go with bulbs that have Zigbee support. They can be controlled by other software. I bought a FEIT electric bulb and the app is terrible. Hopefully open standards like Zigbee and Matter win.