[vidarh]

> is probably lower than you seem to suggest (if you are already proficient in Java)

So in other words it's probably not lower than suggested.

And certainly higher than the skills required to order and plug in a home assistant that offers a superior interface (doesn't require clean and free hands)

[mdp2021]

True it is that the technologist engineers, in a way, to celebrate laziness. But on the other hand, it does not take a hacker to «order and plug in».

Now, the context is more on drawbacks, and it was the very poster to note an intention to «replace [it] with something fully local».