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@nonlinear
Building these systems isn't really my hobby, so I'm buying on the basis of software stack quality and reliability alone, which has meant nothing but Hue. I'm aware that at some point I'll be forced to replace all five bridges with a couple of home assistant installs, but this side of the house has already taken an order of magnitude more time than the professional side, so I'm really uninterested in sysadmining it harder. Otoh, the professional gear takes six weeks to get and costs a grand or more a fixture, while I can buy Hue bulbs at the hardware store.

The hardware layer won't get less crap until the business model/consumer expectations change, and thus the only real place for usability improvements is at the software layer, aka where the enshitification is happening.
@akareilly