My personal opinion: This is the same discussion as SAT yes/no, only that you have to obtain an additional approval for this. And from my point of view, it also aligns with SAT-no. You don't need it, but if you want to sell the house, you'll get weird looks. You know what I mean? My first and only house viewing had no ERR, as a layman you think oh man what a botch. No one assumes they will want/have to sell their house in 10-15 years. But I personally think it is also like SAT-no, depreciating to build without ERR. Why don’t you combine heating circuits on one ERR? You surely have an open living space! I come up with 8 controllers including the basement, even though I know that due to inertia I only fiddle with it 2-3 times a year. There are also changeover switch and ERR combinations where it doesn’t stand out directly. The extra cost of about €40 per switch was really too much for me, but the separate ERR doesn’t bother me either. Here, among other things, the heating distribution box on the ground floor is "hidden" behind a sideboard, moving it 2-3 times a year is annoying.