I have a self hosted HA deployment that hasn't been updated in a while. I haven't updated it partially because they made the boneheaded move of deprecating their YAML config in favor of GUI-only config, and partially because the developers are insufferable dickholes.
I should probably move off of the deployment that I've got right now at some point, but what are people currently using for home automation? Is anyone running a newer version of HA that thinks it's not actually that bad?
Node-Red is a graph flow tool and MQTT is a protocol. Neither of which can do what HA does, so not sure why that comment was made.