Complex and bloated

I've a bunch of code in HA, I run three instances of it, I have a whole bunch of complexity tied into it from turning the yard lights on when it's dark, to running the fan in my bathroom when the humidity is significantly above the ambient humidity, to noticing that the cabin water supply pump is running but drawing too little current so there's probably a water leak and turning it off to stop it burning out. I've never paid anything. There are use cases where the subscription makes life easier (and yes the hoops to jump through for Google Assistant integration without using a maintained cloud service are annoying), but "damned near useless" is just not even slightly true. If you've ended up under the misapprehension that HACS (the community maintained integration distribution system) requires a subscription then, well, that's a misapprehension?