As @tomw has said, it's well worth the effort, especially if you have a lot of speakers and groups to manage. The "presets" make things so much easier than you can imagine.
Also, a note about the SmartThings integration. As it stands today, that integration is based on a proprietary websocket-based groovy DTH. As yet, despite numerous inquiries, SmartThings has made no commitment to delivering an equivalent Edge-compatible driver/integration. So that integration might not continue in its present form at all.
Hubitat's integration would improve significantly if they were able to utilize the Sonos Websocket API, but even if that happened I would still use the node-sonos-http-api. I can't imagine having a significant Sonos investment without it.
ETA: Hours after I posted the above, SmartThings announced that an EDGE based was in development and would be released in the very near future.
