I tend to agree with you. I have some setups on raspberry pi running for years for basic setup. All this thread is going nowhere if you need a basic home automation without million complex rules databases and special software running along then stay with raspberry pi hell there are a million things using raspberry pi i am going to give a small example of a comercial offering from dobiss a Belgium home automation complete offering that uses the embedded raspberry pi. The moment you need complex stuff influxdb with writes every millisecond and complex rules ai stuff vtt tts image processing etc then it’s up to the user to configure the system and maintain even comercial offerings like Gira Jung beos etc are dumbed down to only limited features to keep up with the hardware. So it’s per requirements if you only need an app and some basic automation stay with raspberries also consider that Nabu casa choose it also.
