Pair wall switch (esphome digital input) and Light (esphome switch)

Hi,
first my setup:
I have some wall switch conected over UTP to esp board (as digital input) with esphome - this switches are integrated to HA as switch.
I have some lights over relayboard conected to esp board with esphome and integrated to HA as light.

I want “join” switches and lights. I dont want integrate switch as lights - it seems to me little messy.

I know I can make automatizations like: turn switch on/off → turn light on/off.
But it makes lot of automations (maybe I can make it easier by blueprints, I dont know them yet well).

Do you have any other idea?

On the same esp or different ones?

Now they are on same - some main ligts are joined with switch just trought esp and it work very well.

But I want some LED strip controlled by adaptive lighting (GitHub - basnijholt/adaptive-lighting: Adaptive Lighting custom component for Home Assistant).
So I have to join them in HA.

In future there will be more esp - one for inputs, one for outputs.