I tried everything since arduino came out and HA is light years ahead of anything else, and as someone else mentioned HA works with ESPHome and let's you use al

I tried everything since arduino came out and HA is light years ahead of anything else, and as someone else mentioned HA works with ESPHome and let's you use all of the platform. For example creating a data collection tool that automatically integrates with Grafana HA has for data collection. Super useful and easy to setup.