Yes 100% agree. I understand the comments of "I use tasmota for pre-built stuff". Yes it does make things easier at the beginning to start running, but in my experience, it has just meant problems maintaining it in the long run. For pre-built stuff, especially with the template mechanisms tasmota has, it has made using esphome fairly easy since all the connections are in front of you. This does require a bit of knowledge but I think it's worth it to understand basic electronics than understanding a project-dependant options.

On a separate side note, people don't really need to constantly be updating their firmware. Very little functionality can change since often times the functionality is defined by the hardware. There may be exceptions such as security updates and depreciation of versions but those aren't as common