It's not a good look taken together
As someone whose smart home need is minimal -- I just use it to turn on/off lights with voice -- I'd rather have nothing than support such behavior.
Is there anything wrong with (not) going with a solution based on your personal belief?
You are free to make your own decision.
a) five years ago
b) nothing to be ashamed of, honestly
c) dumb drama
This is bad faith. You could reference it in good faith as context, but that is not what you are doing.
I'm not mad about anything, but I wouldn't need your permission to be so.
I've learned from this thread that I don't want to use HA in the future.
Who said that you would have?
My overarching point is that the outrage here is about Home assistant essentially not being "pure enough".
And I get that. I share those views.
But the people complaining about it, for the most part, actually can't handle what it would be if it was as "pure" as they say it should be.
Because that's then the role I have been playing here, and as you can see, that pisses people off even more than HA's friendly corporate diversions.
So, essentially, my point is that people actually want things to be exactly the way they are, because it is less dangerous to the ego.
Meaning that this is all just a charade. And a bad one at that that could not be further from the ideals, this platform wants to pursue.
Intellectual curiosity and all.
Good night!
I mean I can see the "I think your judgement is bad" could be seen as a personal insult (even though it is genuinely meant as an assessment of reality), but "multiple"?
The sentence structure implied that I would have personally insulted this HN user and did so multiple times.
That is not true though.
What you did probably sense instead is more of a general abrasiveness-field. That was intentional (and obvious, for that matter).
It was (and is) a never-ending drama faucet, because most people are in it for the identity and not for the utility. Or rather the utility primarily is the identity granted by using it.