Interesting I will have to see if a Hue bulb integrated through Home Assistant or directly to Hubitat has prestaging. This would get me closer to my goal and may end up using it as a short term solution. Long-term I'm still pursuing a move to a HA based solution since I believe "command handling" to allow applications to customize incoming commands is a very desirable feature, particularly for device that behave differently than normal.
e.g all the weird LiFX behavior in DayLights could instead live in a custom LiFX command fixing app, and DayLights could focus on what it's good at instead of per-device fixes.
It's interesting since the SmartThings platform had command handling in some form based on a thread I found here: subscribeToCommand? Listening for deviceNotification() on a childDevice Can't confidently say that the SmartThings implementation would have allowed a fix, but it's disappointing that Hubitat opted not to included it when forking ST APIs.
There are always unspoken caveats with these workarounds like scenes.
If I have Day Lights (or whatever automation) controlling a Hue Scene, it will always be controlling all the lights in that scene. I wouldn't have the ability to override the dimming on a handful of the lights within the scene, as soon as Day Lights ran next, those lights would snap back to the Day Lights controlled state. If I could use scenes without losing granularity of control I would.
