Very sad… our IT industry is maturing with Infra as Code, pipelines, everything as code, moving away from repetitive GUI interfaces used to configure systems. Here HA is going the opposite way.
Before we had Google Assistant, Alexa, Mi Home, Philips Hue, and all Cloud Platforms, easy for non-technical persons, but indeed difficult if you value privacy. Otherwise… if you wanted to own your IoT, avoid the Cloud, and have everything working locally, you got to be tech-savvy anyway and went for HA. I relied on HA to replace all those apps, and now that I can’t simply copy & paste config with people or Git, it just got harder.