Concerns about Direction of Developer Workspace

[joelw135 (Joel W)]

@Robcar

I am a pretty new ST-user and I must say I’m concerned about what I have read here. The reason I bought ST is because of all different custom device handlers. Also, I am using webcore for all my automations.

Will my user experience be affected? Will my devices and automations stop working or have I missed something?

I am not a new user, but have grown my system by using the generous work of the community. What happens to all the time I spent setting this up. Let’s face it most of the Device Type Handlers provided by SmartThings are far from as good as the ones created by the community. Smartapps like Ask Alexa, WebCoRe, Big Talker etc, what happens to them. Also I am on a Mac, and very few of the work a rounds are for Mac. Windows, Raspberry Pi YES. I and many others are very concerned, that the promise of a system for everyone is going to be a pipe dream, and gone in a puff of smoke. I have so many devices that ST doesn’t support, what about them???