Nothing and no one is perfect, but Home Assistant is orders of magnitude better than any other home automation suite. The fact that there's enough transparency for this to be discovered, for this conversation to happen, and for the maintainer to publicly apologize is evidence of that.
replyBetter, but apparently not good enough: I would have expected a bit more from a company that goes all in on "your home your data and privacy".....
replyIt does seem that this is an unforgivable offense for many HN commenters, which makes me wonder what kind of Home automation those folks are running. Google Home? Amazon Alexa? Samsung SmartThings? Apple Homekit?
replyThe answer is obvious: we would rather have no home automation than have home automation that can't be trusted.
replyWhat is unforgivable?
replyIs there anything wrong with (not) going with a solution based on your personal belief?
You are free to make your own decision.