I would say just the opposite. They are trying to be as lean as they can so they DON'T become the next Wink or whoever. While they haven't publicly given any hard numbers, they have inferred there are no money problems due to having sales of a commercial line of hubs, the good volume of retail sales of hubs, their subscription services, and the fact that they have a (for a company like this) small number of staff. Hard to say what the real story is, so take that for what it is worth.
Copied from your other thread, but relevant here:
I don't think Hubitat ever promised to support Tasmota, so I don't know how you can say there was a decision to not support it. They have never said anything either way that I am aware of. They didn't announce that they were going to add Lifx until just before the recent firmware update that made this possible. There are many examples of that, they never disclose what their plans are. So I am not sure your statement is quite fair.
While I get why people want the Tasmota stuff, I apparently see it differently than you do.
- Most of these devices are cheap (and inexpensive, two different things) that are often not UL listed or tested/certified in any way.
- They require extra steps to flash them, and that takes time. My time is worth more than saving maybe $5 over a switch that you can buy that just natively works with Zwave or Zigbee.
- You can buy a Zooz Zwave dimmer for $22 that has double taps, nightlight mode, can be wired 3-way with dumb switches, and so on. That is not the only example of an inexpensive switch that is known to work and work well with Hubitat and most other hubs.
So what are you really gaining by using a cheap (and not in a good way IMO) Tasmotized switch instead of something you can just buy and use without screwing around?
