And youre over estimating the technical literacy of the average person. This is the first time I've heard of nabu casa, I just checked out their website and they're immediately talking about yaml, I've browsed every page I can see and I can't see anything about setting it up. Another labe mentionrd docker and JWT as troubleshooting steps - that's too much for 99.99999% of people to ever use.

I'm under no delusion that the average person can, or is willing, to setup something like Home Assistant.

I was answering a question posted on HN, where the assumption that the average HN user is capable of fiddling with hardware and software is usually valid.