Welcome aboard (another person jumping off the Vera route - I had a Vera for a couple of years, but moved to OH over 2 years back)…
I appreciate that the zwave binding isn’t the easiest to understand as it does require some low level knowledge of zwave. I’m not aware of a good tutorial on this (although someone else might point one out), but the wiki has a lot of information on configuring the binding (although you’ve probably already seen that) and there is also this post with some example configurations. The other resource is to do a search in the old google group forum.
In the OH2 zwave binding, configuration will be a LOT easier 
Chris