Woah, really?
I had no idea. Well it does make sense as it’s probably less noise without it, and who says the Homey is exactly where you’d use the NFC tags (except for in my case where it IS exactly where I need it).
How about Arduino/Wemos D1 Mini + NFC reader that updates a variable over MQTT?
Then you can have multiple scanners in the location you need them.
(A whole project of course, but doable and fairly simple)