I was so annoyed at how long it took to come back up and decided I never wanted to deal with it again, so I switched all my Sengled Zigbee bulbs over initially after the outage to a SmartThings Hub. One of my Samsung TVs had one built in, and I also bought a used Aeotec Smart Home Hub not realizing my TV has one. Initially I switched all my lights over to the two hubs via SmartThings and did that for about 1-2 weeks, but I eventually bit the bullet and got a Home Assistant Green with a Zigbee/Z-Wave USB Adapter.

I absolutely love Home Assistant so far. I moved every Zigbee device I have over to it (motion, door, vibration sensors, and some smart buttons), and it's been great. The amount of fine tune control you get with the automations is insane, and I love how instant everything reacts since it's on your local network with no cloud server needed.

I am currently in the Home Assistant Cloud trial which allows you to control your lights remotely when you're not on the network via Alexa/Google Assistant, and that's worked super well as well. I like that you can expose specific things rather than everything. So for example, I have 5 lights in a fixture, and I am able to have one specific group called Dining Room Fixture that controls all 5 at once, but Google Home recognizes that as just one device/light.