It's not that bad. The people who are the saltiest on the forum are the ones with unreasonable expectations of what Samsung "owes" users of SmartThings for both the platform in general and the migration.
Not that bad?
So, you don't think Samsung owes it's customers a product with the same functionality it had when they sold it to us? It is not a perspective I share.
I'm sure they covered their a$$es in the EULA, but I never would have bought that PoS and invested as much personal IP as I did to build my own ecosystem around it, if I had known what would happen a few short years later. It is an effing sh!t show, and unless you are shilling for them or promoting a product on their new Lua/edge ecosystem, I cannot see how you could see this as anything else.
If you mean by "it's not so bad" that your groovy stuff still works, enjoy it while it lasts. If you mean your stuff already has working Lua drivers, and you are satisfied by available automation options, you are lucky.
Just take a random sampling of the tone on a few threads on ST forum compared to this one and tell me its just "unreasonable expectations". From what I see, the only people really engaging anymore there on most of the other threads are all developers trying to figure this crap out - and they are having major problems that poor @nayelyz is trying to sort out for them. If Samsung really gave an effing crap about this, there would be 10+ developers all over this, not just 1 or 2 poor souls that will likely be gone soon after dealing with this crap for so long! They have already lost the engagement of their customer base, and they have done nothing to smooth this transition. Here on HE , I see a healthy engagement of users at all levels as well as developers and customer support - it could not be a more night and day difference, IMHO.
If it was important to Samsung, they could have invested the resources to make this whole thing a non issue, but it is clear that they just don't care. Some middle manager idiot must have decided this was the right thing to do, but failed to estimate the required resources and time, as well as impact to their ecosystem and customer base, as well as their competitor's positions. They could have been in a better position than Apple/Google/AWS, but they completely muffed it. I'm sure it will be taught in tech MBA courses for years to come! ST is definitely the next X10 - RIP.
The actual users still engaged who aren't qvetching either don't give a sh!t, don't know yet, or have already joined us here on HE!