I understand both frustrations. I still run HA, and with a few addons, namely VSCode, ESPHome, and Node Red, it's a very serviceable solution, and I don't think anything else comes close. The config is still YAML for the most part, but you do have to go through a lot of GUI to get to edit the individual elements. That's for sure not as nice, but I wouldn't want to set up my complicated home theater automation on any other system.