For security reasons, I won't disclose all of the "stuff" in my network but..... It is as complex as most corporate networks LOL. It grows by the day....
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Same goes for me. I never fully tell what I have and how it is setup. Let's just say I have a half rack in the garage that is like 3U shy of being full.
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Yeah, it's interesting how the performance of the systems varies so much from house to house. My house is pretty old, so wired backhaul wasn't an option.
The thing that killed me with Velop is that adding extra nodes seemed to reduce the effectiveness of the network. I tried using 4, 5, and then 6 nodes. And it just got worse and worse. Ended up going back down to 3 nodes and just accepting that there would be deadzones.
With the Eero Pro 6, I'm using 4 nodes, and have vastly better coverage than before. Seems like it's a YMMV thing though.
(The other thing that killed me with Velop is that making any change, even a small one like setting a static IP for a device, would cause the entire network to reboot, which took 5-10 minutes.)
My setup seems to change every 6 months or so - my prior posts about my system config don't tend to age well...security through obscurity at it's finest! 
I usually add a bunch of stuff in for testing then start to streamline. My current Home Automation setup involves 3 HE Hubs, an RPi as a companion server running Node-RED, Homebridge & Wireguard. I've started to explore the Ubiquiti stuff - I like their WiFi and POE switches.
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I am going to do the unthinkable and run conduit up the outside of the house. The two rooms where I need switches on 2nd and 3rd are in the corner of the house, no closets align, there's insulation in the walls, etc. My contractor thought he could come up through a central closet and then pull off the baseboards, cut a channel into the plaster, and put it all together again. And then he tried it at someone else's house. I guess it made a huge mess of the walls.
This was probably mentioned but Powerline? Also do you have old Coax? MoCA adapters are also a possibility.
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Powerline works poorly in my house. MOCA works better but isnt were I need it to be. In fact the coax is all stuck up along side the house as well, so it will be coming out as the conduit goes in.
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Yeah all the knob and tube haha... 
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