Home Assistant Blue & wifi Devices

So I bought Home Assistant Blue (HAB), thinking yeah this will be fun, have not coded for about 30 years, but hey I can do it. Just basic scripts.
So first issue was, half my wifi lights are not seen with HAB, ok lets gets an interface…none available…argh. OK lets do Alexa, no integration again. Start hitting head on wall.
so set up Samba, ok, can now see some folders on my window machine, set the network properties, and can now use basic text editor to edit some YAML files. Hey that brings back some memories. Kind of fun.

Reading some topics it seems that HA can be done with Tapo bulbs, but not in HAB? what am i missing here?

OK so now got a Raspi4, so do i need to build another HA, to do this? as HAB dont like wifi?

I would rather a USB wifi to plug into HAB, I dont want to use Zigbee or Zwave, as all my bulbs are wifi, or again am i missing something?

As said, kind of fun, but its starting to hurt.