It used to be. It was called selective availability, where the DoD could dial up/down the accuracy for commercial receivers. However, it was discontinued in 2000.

I’ve been pretty happy with the consistency of both Inland and Overture.

Don’t think of it as a subscription then. Think of it as a recurring donation to the HA devs. Nabu Casa IS the HA devs.

I’m the same as you about subscriptions, but I make multiple small donations (recurring monthly) to Open Source projects that I believe in. I put Nabu Casa ($6-ish/month) in that group. And remote access is stupid simple when you do.

Ecobee hits all the wickets you’re looking for. Local control through homekit, cloud based as well, and simple enough for my wife (the non-techy) to figure out.