The "recursive landscape of terror" doesn't stop once you install Home Assistant, it continues during maintenance. And at that point you're dependent on it to run the systems in your house. Thus I recently decided to get rid of my whole setup and go back to normal.
Further, the tinkering aspect isn't enjoyable to me because I don't feel like I'm learning anything useful, I'm just trying to duct tape together other people's hobby projects that adds support for this or that bulb or radio.