Guys the conversation is getting sidetracked here. This thread is about OpenHAB 5, not about inventing another religion.
Please adjust accordingly?
Another wish, to fulfill my previous request of getting back on topic:
Any chance of having the upkeep of the OpenHAB node red node included in the OpenHAB core work?? My question comes from complete ignorance, but I was thinking about the last time I was impacted by an update. And it was when the API was updated, and it broke the node red OpenHAB node for obvious reasons.
Now sure… sure, openHAB already has rules and blocky… but having that node maintained by openHAB would likely imply minimal work in the end, and would offer another solution for rule management.
(And yes… I am working on moving many of my rules back into openHAB to reduce how affected I would be in a future outage. But node red is pretty cool 
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