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HA does not "insist". You can change things in your config as you need.
Wildly unhelpful. And yes, the integration INSISTS that my device is a light. Yes, I can change how they report, but there's still some dumb ass slider for dimming associated with my PIRs.
Expecting new adopters to be editing YAML (or whatever) in order to make a newly added but years old device to HASS is one hell of a bar to entry.