Your choice of the GE fan controller switch you won’t regret. As the others have noted, mine as well as my brother’s is super quiet as well. I also don’t have a light switch for my fan lights and mounted my dimming controller in the fan canopy. As far as the manual light control you can do some work around. I have Alexa and that by far is the most common method we use, but before Alexa I used the Aeon Minimote sitting on my end table and program the buttons to bring on/off the fan light to pre-programmed levels.
And don’t forget to look at automating your fan speeds with a thermostat app.
