From a purely personal point of view, one of the main attractions that I've seen about Home Assistant is the beautiful dashboard that it creates, with very little effort.
However, a while ago, I came across the Joe Page Hubitat Dashboard. (I have an android phone). It's also damm easy to use, and very fast to make up. It's not as good looking as the HA one (IMHO), but it does everything (more or less) that the HA does (and looks pretty good and organized).
Then, of course, I realized that my style is not to use a dashboard at all, and for those few times where "direct control" is required, we use a Voice Assistant (we've got a few in the house, but we find Alexa to be the best).
I keep on searching for a reason to use the spare SBC with my spare Nortek USB stick to fire up HA. I just haven't found enough of a reason yet.
