I don’t know why but figured the same as you. If they bothered to document it, I’d bother to follow it. I did the download only option too since I also run opnsense from a VM.

Zwave always works for me - but costs more. ZigBee is the bulk of my devices. If possible, I avoid tuya stuff but some solutions are only tuya (switches without neutral wires come to mind.)

I run proxmox so I have a VM dedicate to HA OS with frequent backups. This allows me to also run a number of other things without worrying about inadvertently messing up my HA install

Great question. I was wondering the same myself. I’m liking Lemmy so far