Yes, it looks this way to me too. Interesting that they didn't join forces.
I spent far too much time trying to maintain a setup of HASS. It's schizophrenic with it's MQTT support and the two paths don't play well. It "supports" SSL through Let's Encrypt but it was problematic with MQTT. It's kind of awful to configure with files being scattered all over the filesystem. It frequent updates and frequently breaks configurations. It also has weird limitations with certain Smarthome integrations (e.g. Insteon) that make it unusable.