Yes, they feel every moment until the knife slices their pea-sized nerve center of a brain in half. That took about 1/2 of a second. It’s done and now we can eat.

This is a left/right thing?!! WTF? This just a food thing and if you are left/righting it you are a world-class dolt!

It’s a fucking bug! Boil it and eat the shit already.

I worked at Red Lobster for a number of years as a young’un. A large part of my work in the prep kitchen initially (after I graduated from the dish ring) was to slice live Maine lobs in half to make “princess lobsters” (half a lobster with body cavity stuffed with yummy). These stupid bugs are no more sentient than a cockroach that you smash with a shoe.

Why would anyone spend even a second considering the feelings of a fucking bug?!

Regarding your myQ, get away if you can. You can find an inexpensive HK device from Meross that will likely work for you.

If you want to use HA then you will end up migrating all of your HK devices to be paired with HA and then you can bridge them all (and more) back to HK so your family does not have to learn anything new.