Glad to see Troy likes it as much as we like creating it!
If you haven't heard about it, next month is the Home Assistant Conference[1] where we will have three tracks: everyone, advanced users and developers. Each filled with great talks and of course some exciting announcements!
I think a large portion of my gripes are due to what I describe as an in-between state right now. Is HA for those with Linux experience? Is it not? If it's the later, UI features that don't do anything should never be allowed in releases. Right now, I can't delete a dead Z-Wave node. The button is greyed out. I have to delete as much as I can from the UI, then clean it up from the yaml files. This is not something a layman can do. I just want one button to delete a dead node from entities, nodes, Z-Wave, switch, and devices, or tell me where exactly I need to delete things from yaml and .storage.
Also, I think the project needs to get away from entities and nodes, or at least hide them in the UI and end user documentation. It's too abstract and not always relevant to the end-user.