I've given up on smartThings controlling Hue

I’ve used this Hue integration and it runs faster than the official one.

You do have to remove all Hue things from SmartThings before you install Hue B Smart, and there is still a small delay if you were to press the on button on a Hue remote before it shows as on in SmartThings and thus Action Tiles, but it is a far shorter delay than with the native integration.