The midwit home

There's a bias where most of the content is produced by the most hardcore group of people. This is, of course, no different with home automation. You can do Home Assistant without making it your hobby, it's just that most of the posts you see are from people who are way too deep into it.

Exactly. I have my lights tied into Home Assistant to turn on/off when a room is occupied for couple of rooms and a wakeup routine for the bedroom tied to the alarm on my phone (lights mimic a sunrise 30 mins before the alarm).

I also have a couple of convenience automations like turning off the TV if it's been idle for X minutes (I've probably fallen asleep).

I've found they are mostly set and forget. Haven't touched it for about a year and don't plan to touch them any time soon.