traveler

I just found out that ISY variables can no longer be imported into HASS as sensors, even though the documentation for the ISY integration still indicates that the sensor option is available by using the sensor string. I cannot imagine why this was changed and it has caused a lot of issues for me. I upgraded to 2023.07.1 from 2023.04 and now I have pages of numbers instead of sensors. I have a lot of variables and dozens of cards that use these sensors. Numbers do not work in graphs or charts or on some custom card charts like apex charts card, which I use a lot of. Is there some advantage to forcing all variables to numbers? Why remove the option/choice? Is there any way to get them back to sensors? Thanks.