The Z-Wave JS documentation (look at the Add-ons page for the Documentation tab) has a lot of useful recommendations and opinions of how specific manufacturers behave:
After many years of Z-Wave, the reviews look balanced to me - e.g. Fibaro make pretty kit, but outright refuse to release firmware updates. This lack of support forced me to buy an old HomeCentre Lite just to fix several broken FGD-212 dimmers.
Overall Aeotec are good, but do screw up occasionally and igmore the issue (e.g. v5 stick USB hardware mistake).
I’d heard the 700 series driver issues had calmed down (sadly no direct links to share), but then again, mine is a 500 (Aeotec v5 with a hardware fix applied).
EDIT: Found the 700 series reference
this bug is largely, if not completely, resolved as of firmware version
7.17.2