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There are esp32 variants that can do ZigBee. It's very surprising to me that there's no esphome for those. I'd think that the community would be all over that, but all I have found so far are abandoned GitHub repos. Maybe there's something I don't know about the chip or the protocol that makes it difficult?
Yeah there are large threads on them but because the API has been developed for WiFi, moving to a mesh like ZigBee would be a substantial rewrite although matter would be a lot easier than ZigBee, which got written off a long time ago as just too large if I remember right.
It is also a huge project for people to start developing on, their core team isn't massive, so there is a large barrier to entry for such a thing. It might be happening in the background though, no idea.