Zigbee is a low power mesh network. If you have battery devices zigbee will work for several years, wifi will work for several hours.
Zigbee is great for simple, cheap devices that have low bandwidth. A light bulb or switch is on/off and may have some colour data associated with it. A combo room temp/rh sensor has 3 or 4 data points and generally it really doesn't matter if it takes a couple of minutes to refresh, especially if it's monitoring only.
If you have a good network of mains powered zigbee routers the network will perform pretty well. If you don't it likely won't.
I run HA, zigbee2mqtt, node red and a few other things on my Unraid server in docker. It works very well and means I don't have to run a separate hardware device. It performs much better in a reboot/reprogram situation than it did when I had everything running on a raspberry pi. I wouldn't go back without a very good reason.
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