I think they were referring more to Land Rovers making mechanics out of car owners (Due to their famously bad reliability), but I may have misunderstood the joke.
Definitely, I heard som many bad jokes like you need to buy 2 evoque models to be able to drive at least 1 etc. Really bad reliability despite good design.
He meant shit keeps breaking and youll be constantly fixing it
HA is not hackable, is a massive blob
huh? it's OSS
Only on paper.
How is it only open source on paper? There are thousands of contributors and it's super easy to get your code in.
There's also HACS for plugins which they don't want to merge.