Yea doing Savant CAN be alot easier in some aspects. Hell my kid could do it. As long as you stay in their little bubble with hardware and dont try and get too custom its really easy. But go outside the box and youll end up dealing with their tech support which sucks. Ive had several issues where they cant figure it out and tell me to contact my Rep for a solution, instead of it getting pushed up to engineering team- what good is that? Never is of any use. Plus the hardware isnt the best, AVB audio solutions are crap, remotes and tstats have shitty wifi issues, I could go on and on.