Personally I've just gone all in on ESP-based wi-fi stuff, and it's working great so far. Wi-fi is ubiquitous, and for plugged in devices it means all my stuff

Personally I've just gone all in on ESP-based wi-fi stuff, and it's working great so far. Wi-fi is ubiquitous, and for plugged in devices it means all my stuff just has a regular IP address and DHCP identity on my network (on a secondary SSID without internet access, thanks to Unifi).