WTH Can't I have groups of areas?

[tom_l]

Closing as a duplicate of:

Why do areas only have one tier?

Areas would be a lot more useful if they had different tiers. Example: My house has an open floor plan downstairs, with a big room containing kitchen, living room and dining room. For some use cases I need to have them as separate areas, but for other use cases it would be nice to have all the devices and entities in those areas also belong to a “downstairs” area. I also have a need to have the different sides of the outside of the house in separate areas (driveway, patio, garden) but it would…

Please vote there.