First thing that stands out is the combination of so many ecosystems that should work with each other, but in my experience demand constant attention to actually do so.
It’s one of the main benefits of home assistant, that it is built around working with outside hardware, whereas a lot of the things you are using have no interest really in making other manufacturers stuff play nicely.
Edit: just to add I have noticed a marked deterioration in alexa specifically over the last year or so, directly correlating to amazon pulling away from developing it.
First thing that stands out is the combination of so many ecosystems that should work with each other, but in my experience demand constant attention to actually do so.
It’s one of the main benefits of home assistant, that it is built around working with outside hardware, whereas a lot of the things you are using have no interest really in making other manufacturers stuff play nicely.
Edit: just to add I have noticed a marked deterioration in alexa specifically over the last year or so, directly correlating to amazon pulling away from developing it.