I needed a motion lighting flow that respected manually controlling the lights. Along with usual time of day, illuminance filters. I wasn't being very successful, so Googling around I found an example from a HA user. It uses a node called a finite state machine. It takes a little bit to understand if you are not a programmer, but it's not that conceptually difficult. Basically the flow chooses a path based on triggers, current state, and future state. There's a lot more at the original reddit post.
Flow JSON:
Summary
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