If you want to use a switch for zone control, The new homeseer switches are popular as they can have single tap, double tap, or triple tap for both on and off. These devices capture the tap pattern at the switch, which eliminates the lag problem that prevented many people from using the double tap Smartapp. And you can still use them in a virtual three-way as described above. But you could have a single tap on the kitchen switch turn on just the kitchen lights and a double tap turn on the kitchen and the hallway. And have a single tap in the hallway turn on just the hallway lights and a double tap turn on both. Oh whatever pattern you wanted.
The point is just that since it’s a virtual three-way, you can have different tap patterns on each of the switches if you want. Or the same one.
So lots of options. 