First of all, thank you so much for HA. My family uses it daily and despite some of them being at first resistant to anything smart they now can’t imagine life without it.

I have a general question about HA: the main issues I’ve had with it have had to do with specifically only two points.

1. The recorder module has brought the system to a crawl when a single rogue device on my network kept spamming MQTT with status updates about power consumption and eventually killed the SD card it was running on. Some aggressive ignore statements in the config fixed the issue but I still see this as a major pain point as there is no indication of anything happening. Is there any plan to introduce any kind of housekeeping into the recorder module besides periodic purges (which in my case were not enough to actually keep the system running)?

2. I like to have control over my computers so I did not want to use a pre-installed image of HA for RPi. But the alternative is a cumbersome process of installing it in a Python virtual env and keeping things updated which is not ideal. Are there any plans for improving this installation path? Or alternatively some sort of advanced version of the HA image which would allow someone like me full control over the base OS while keeping the benefits of the cohesive self-updating HA distribution?