Yes. And I agree that any piece of software in you stack can ahve bugs that make life difficult. My issue is that (1) Hubot is supposed to be central to your ecosystem and (2) when I looked at the code at first I saw a style of deployment and docs that made me think that running it would be more trouble than it's worth.
I am continually trying to help improve the deployment and documentation of Hubot, and I even created https://hubot-factory.herokuapp.com that makes it really easy to get up and running on Heroku.