I see. I use the Sonoff ZBdongle-E and it’s “invisibly” doing it’s job very well.
When you use Home Assistant with zigbee2mqtt, you can link Homey to the zigbee devices per zigbee2mqtt community app, or Home Assistant community app.
Or you can run zigbee2mqtt as standalone docker container.
In my humble opinion replacing it with Homey Bridge is a downgrade concerning zigbee.
But with only 8 zigbee devices the bridge should do the job.
Homey also supports not as many devices as zigbee2mqtt does;
It’s important to search the homey.app store if all of your zigbee devices are supported.
Im theory (simple) zigbee lights, switches and plugs should work without an app.