Recently switched to Home Assistant to control all my Hue locally along with a bunch of other devices. It was a pain in the beginning and I was cursing HA. 2 weeks later, I love it.
The breaking changes in HA are out of control, every release is a dozen or more - a good chance at least one integration you use will have a breaking change every time you update.
If you wait too long to upgrade it’ll just implode.