I get it. I didn’t enter into the decision lightly. I think there’s a big misconception still about what Hubitat is. Not trying to sell you, but I do want developers to be interested enough to want to come along. Many developers for ST have already joined and more are coming along by the day.
It runs on Groovy and that’s a significant incentive when you consider how it lowers the bar to porting apps and DH over. ALL of your automations can run without the cloud. Your lights don’t need the cloud, pico remotes don’t need an additional server, Hue integration doesn’t need the cloud, and Insteon could have the same benefit. Fast reaction and no cloud or internet outages will have an effect.
Yes, anyone can buy a PI and load HA or OH, but that’s comparatively a lot of work, and frankly near the same cost when you consider having to add Zigbee and Z-Wave support. Then consider that it’s entirely up to you and community when something doesn’t work, instead of a paid support team behind it.