I would stay away from Tuya for now for multiple reasons, including lack of safety certifications. (That’s why, for example, they aren’t sold at Home Depot.) But mostly they are really only designed to work with their own hubs in physically small installations. They use a lot of custom code which introduces multiple compatibility issues.
It’s also really important to understand that Matter is brand new and just getting started. Tuya has said they will eventually have a hub that works with Matter. But not that all their devices will. And not that they will update any existing hub models. The way it will eventually (probably second quarter 2023) work is that you will buy the correct Tuya hub, Connect all your Tuya devices to it, then add the Tuya hub to your SmartThings app and it will bring many (but not all) of its devices along with it through the Matter integration. That’s excellent news. But it does not mean that Tuya devices you buy right now will necessarily suddenly get new integrations.
(There may eventually be Tuya WuFi devices that can be added without a hub but that brings us back to the WiFi discussion. Plus again, no promises have been made that devices you buy today will be upgradable to work with Matter.)
Anyway, Tuya is not a match to the lighting project you’ve described. Just one engineer’s humble opinion, of course. 
If you’d like to read more details about Matter, see the following thread:
Matter - smart home connectivity standard (formerly Project CHIP)