Larger companies with their own HUBs make it more difficult to connect with HOMEY

No problems here, even something like victron (wich i suppose doesn’t has a lot of users) is supported and with a simple question to the developer of the app a lot of stuff is even added. And prove me wrong but outside of HA i think homey supports the most stuff out of every smarthub in a simple and elegant way. Of course there a few bugs and problems but its not like the guys at athom are sitting still. Only downside could indeed be that some apps are not further developed anymore, but feel free to go to github and develop it yourself or maybe ask kindly to another developer on the forum to pick up the app. (and maybe donate some coffee sometimes to the developers of your favorite apps to keep them motivated😇) Just have a look at this recent forum topic how easy it is to connect something when there is no official app already: App creation for HomeWhiz support (Beko / Grundig)