While I don’t have plans to leave Wyze (they work great for me), if I did, I would probably bite bullet on the cost increase and go with Reolink because they have “Works with Home Assistant” quality certification for awesome local functionality. I have cameras from several other companies and I think that overall, Reolink actually prioritizing local functionality and HQ Home Assistant support gives it the best leverage for what I would want in a replacement option.
Note that a lot of people in Reolink’s forums and discussion groups (as well as the same for almost all other companies) have almost identical recurring complaints as you’ll see here in the Wyze forums, even about connectivity. But it’s possible that another company’s protocol designs will work more compatibility with a person’s network setup. I once outlined a lot of things that I found made a difference for connectivity, and ever since I’ve had nearly flawless connectivity with every brand, including Wyze (of which I have over 60 cameras and use multiple TB of data per month with no problems). For some observers reading this thread or stumbling upon it when searching about connectivity, it can be worth looking through a few of those items to see if any of them could help your situation if you’re having connectivity issues. It made a huge difference for me.
Which company is best for whom can depend on a number of variables, and what they value most. If a person wants affordability and doesn’t care about guaranteed excellent integration with Home Assistant, then Tapo is a top competitor to Wyze. Just be aware that there are a lot of concerns about them in recent times to the point that they almost had all their networking products entirely banned in the USA. I’ve tried a lot of camera companies and for the most part they’re a lot more similar than they are different, but some of those differences meet people’s specific use cases better than others. I like using them as redundancy backup so some server error or AWS outage doesn’t totally take down all my security at once. So I kind of like having strategic secondary cameras from multiple companies set up for these times. For some of you, even if you switch away from Wyze as your primary, you may consider using them in a similar way as backup redundancy since you have them anyway.
Either way, I hope everyone finds what suits them best 