Opinion: HomeKit is doomed to fail if Apple doesn't make their own automation hardware

Hard to argue with the opinion here. Maybe Matter will help, but HomeKit isn't quite where it needs to be seven years since it was announced. While I believe in quality of quantity, this is a pretty poor position to find yourself in:

As of October 2019, Apple lists 450 devices compatible with HomeKit, compared to 10,000 for Google and 85,000 for Amazon.