This is great feedback, thank you very much. So far I only talked to a loxone comercial, and another installer that works both with knx and loxone, and that person has recommended loxone. Do you know if loxone gives incentives to their installers ?

Vscode extension is aware of home assistant entities, so you get (or should) auto completion of existing entities and services, which you will not get on vim over ssh

Gigabox looks like a cloud backup solution. Did you meant anything else?

No, but totalitarian governments tend to get into everything, and a popular piece of software is something they will be interested in.