That would be least painful route. But imagine a system which can combine events across sub-systems, and allows you to write some interesting rules or solutions. That is a vision of this project. In future there might be AI based apps to detect certain threats, like earth quake, terror attack on public buildings etc.
There is always a value in a Home Automation Bus.
Regarding your support concern, let us hope there are RedHats and Canonicals for OH in the future.
Fedora community is like OH community RedHat picks stable things from Fedora and releases them under RHEL offering, which is commercially supported.
Future is good, let us not troll each other for things that are not working.
