I am running Aotect Zi-Stick (ZGA008), but I would probably go with Sonoff ZBDongle-E, which is based the same EFR32MG21 chip, but has external antenna.
I recommend to use #Zigbee2MQTT because it's decoupled from home automation software:
- ability to switch software in future without repairing all devices in different software,
- no duplication of efforts to add device support in multiple softwares,
- ability to run (or evaluate) different software in parallel against the same Zigbee network.