I choose a Reolink camera. It works well with Surveillance Station on my Synology NAS, Home Assistant, the official Android client, and the official Mac client. I’ve never been able to get the official Windows client to work. It’s failed to work on two different computers.
The camera runs off Power Over Ethernet, so it’s just a single CAT6 cable and there are no batteries to manage.
The camera bounces your requests to stream through Reolink’s servers by default, but you can disable that feature if you’re only using the cameras locally.