[cybrox]

Really depends on how you use it. In my experience, the smarter you want to make your home, the more it will just get in your way, no matter how good or bad the technology is.

If you use a system like HA to automate a lot of simple things, it just works™. I've been running HA for years now and I'm incredibly happy with it.

Most rooms I don't spend a lot of time in have motion activated lights that sill allow me to override that with a simple wall switch, some lights turn off when I stream something on my TV and I have temperature and moisture monitoring with alerting in case something goes wrong like my washing machine blowing up.