Uv has been awesome so far. It brought the release time for Home Assistant down from an hour and a half to about 15 minutes.
Also installing all the dependencies from scratch used to give you enough time to grab lunch and drink coffee, and now we can only grab the coffee in that time!
I did put in a lot of work to make the integration with HA as nice as possible. Their API is nice and they provide it for free. I am secretly hoping they aren't becoming the next MyQ where they want to avoid it.
They even recently launched their Withings+ subscription, so they are trying to bring in more revenue. Their other revenue stream (apart from selling devices) is some kind of reseller program. Let's hope they can make it sustainable so we can enjoy our devices.
I think the best way to discover you want to do something with smart home is seeing someone else do it. Then you can advice this to them and have less fear of becoming "the tech support".
Everybody in my class started with Visio, they almost all went to alternatives due to unreliability. Crashes with no autosave files happened way too often.