Recently we have started to see the first wave of smart home forced obsolescence. This is why I stay away from proprietary integrations. This is also why I am happy to use homeassistant as it does insulate my devices from third parties.
I hope this does not continue and we see a shift toward enabling long term support for all smart integrations. I really thought the consortium that came together in December would help to stop some of this.
The first Hue bridge is pretty old now, one could have expected that they will no longer support it in my opinion. The new bridge still continues to work as far as I can see.
Anyway, better integrate Hue devices through deconz, zigbee2mqtt or zha then you don’t have this dependency and states then get pushed to HA instead of polling them from the Hue hub.
Sadly, I think this is inevitable as the number of combinations of x integrated with y just keeps going up and it becomes uneconomical to continue to support everything.
My mission is to automate without any reliance on external services except data feeds like weather forecasts, grid CO2 intensity etc. Then I’m only exposed to major changes like eventual phaseout of 2.4GHz wifi hardware, for example.