The ideal case for me is that I don’t need HACS at all. My experience has been the same - I’ve happily been able to switch to core HA components and stop using HACS ones. It’s great to see HA is not idle with success, they are continuing to make new features even when backwards compatibility may break.
This advertisement for an awful commercial software package with a restrictive license in NO WAY helps the original poster learn FreeCAD.